I’m rereading the 1952 #ScienceFiction classic #TheSpaceMerchants by #FrederikPohl and #CMKornbluth before teaching it again this summer. It’s always been compelling, but wow, it hits different in 2025.
A follow up from a post from last week, these people suggest we forget, looking for Dyson spheres, and look for service world instead…
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In 1960, Freeman Dyson proposed how advanced civilizations could create megastructures that enclosed their system, allowing them to harness all of their star's energy and multiplying the habitable space they could occupy.
Today’s vintage paperback: David R. Bunch’s Moderan, one of SF’s secret masterpieces. Next to it is the new expanded edition with a forword by #jeffvandermeer
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Weird Science News: I read this article twice and it seems like the title is backwards. Using lasers they can extract, metallic, hydrogen, and diamonds from simple plastic.
In the decades to come, this might be a solution to pollution all over the planet and provide superconductors that rival anything in production today.
“A couple of planets might host life in Alpha Centauri, but we'll probably have to go there to find out for sure.”
It’s not a matter of if I would go if asked… it’s a matter of which fedoras I can bring with me and who else in my family will go, too.
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