Coyote, a stowaway on the spaceship Ares that brought the First Hundred to Mars, was a prominent figure of the underground resistance in #KimStanleyRobinson's #MarsTrilogy.
Here we see one of his hideouts, on the other side of the Neretva Vallis riverbank 🙃 🤣
@tom30519
Hm, those would be the Swiss road-builders #KimStanleyRobinson was talking about. The thing is, this is a tourist destination and has to be ready by the time the season opens in '29. We don't want all those Optimuses (Optimos?) stumbling around those rocks and breaking a neck or something.
🤔 Come to think of it, maybe we should open a spare parts store with all those robotic corpses?
@andrealuck
Here is a localization of this image on a broader map, along with names from the official #IAU nomenclature. The center of the image is at approx. 30°S, 153°W.
Not close to any #MarsTrilogy toponyms that I have found so far, so the second image places it in an even broader frame, along with the other images we've seen recently, and some of the well known places from #KSR's #SciFi novels.
Po odběru vzorku z cíle Mineral King pokračuje Curiosity směrem na jih. Při poslední jízdě v solu ujela během 28 minut vzdálenost 17 m. Jede podél mělké brázdy, která je vyplněná pískem.
@JV_Honza
Phaistos and Zakros are my favorites and the peak sanctuaries around the latter, along with Itanos, on the far east coast of Crete.
#KimStanleyRobinson impression, written as thoughts of his Martian heroine Zo (possibly his daughter), surprised me with how it resonated with my own feelings. Of course, there is a significant connection of Mars with Crete 😀
After three long years of struggling with the book and analyzing it I finally put my thoughts into a coherent blogpost. I never expected the Ministry to be #solarpunk , but I hoped that it will paint a future to look forward to.
When I was reading #theMinistryForTheFuture I didn't actually register that the AI team of the Ministry proposed to create a new religion to support its shadow government.
It took away people's agency over their spirituality for purely political gain.
How is that different from the #Dune 's Bene Gesserit?
By the way, Cairo in #KimStanleyRobinson's #MarsTrilogy apparently had (will have 😜) the best view to this gigantic volcano, and the rest of the Noctis Labyrinthus (3rd image).
Imagine this isn't #Perseverance but something 10 times bigger and centuries later, and the operation isn't abrading a rock for science, but surface mining Mars for profit. Is that #SciFi? Or is it just the ugly future for Mars?
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looking N (10°) from RMC 50.1618
Sol 1080, LMST: 12:50:23
OK then, here is some Martian future history, from #KSR's #MarsTrilogy, showing what happened to the space elevator after the Reds attacked it, and a few cities in the area, using your second image.
It's relatively easy to say whether science fiction is hard or soft when it comes to physical technology, but much harder when it comes to social ones.
The Ministry uses blockchain and a few other buzzword techs the same way other books use nanorobots: they magically solve complex problems. Here: social ones.
I just started reading #KimStanleyRobinson’s latest book #MinistryForTheFuture and it’s surreal having my feed filled with news and social media posts from #COP28 at the same time. I can’t tell what’s real anymore.
“Cop28 president says there is ‘no science’ behind demands for phase-out of fossil fuels”
‹‹Si un pour cent de l'humanité contrôle le travail de tous les autres et encaisse bien plus que sa part des bénéfices de ce travail, tout en bloquant avec ardeur le moindre projet fondé sur l'équité et la durabilité, l'idée de la Société à 2000 watts va devenir difficile à réaliser. C'est une évidence, certes, mais ça va mieux en le disant.››
(Kim Stanley Robinson dans "Le ministère du futur", chapitre 16, p.69)
#FinishedReading this #KimStanleyRobinson#AlternateHistory epic, spanning 600 years (and 772 pages!) after the total depopulation of Europe by the Plague. The story is essentially 10 short stories / novellas across this time, linked by the reincarnation of characters. It did occasionally feel like work - KSR loves characters who lecture, although he usuallly writes about intellectuals for whom this makes sense - but overall I find it rewarding and rich. #Bookstodon@bookstodon
The Lost Cause is my next novel. It's about the climate emergency. It's hopeful. $LibraryJournal called it "a message hope in a near-future that looks increasingly bleak." As with every other one of my books #Amazon refuses to sell the audiobook, so I made my own, and I'm pre-selling it on #Kickstarter:
#KimStanleyRobinson read the book and said, "Along with the rush of adrenaline I felt a solid surge of hope. May it go like this." That's perfect, because the book is a ride. It's not a kumbaya tale of a possible better world: it's a post-cyberpunk tale of high-tech guerrilla and meme warfare, climate tech and bad climate tech, wildcat prefab urban infill, and far-right militas who adapt to a ban on assault-rifles by switching to super-soakers full of hydrochloric acid.
The second decade of the 21st century is truly a bounteous time. My backyard has produced a bumper crop of an invasive species of mosquito that is genuinely innovative: rather than confining itself to biting in the dusk and dawn golden hours, these stinging clouds of flying vampires bite at every hour that God sends:
Writing a hopeful novel of ecological, social and economic redemption, driven by #solidarity, #repair, and #LibrarySocialism, was a powerful tonic against despair in this smoke-smothered, flooded, mosquito-bitten time. And while the book isn't out yet, there are early indications I succeeded, like #KimStanleyRobinson's reaction, "Along with the rush of adrenaline I felt a solid surge of hope. May it go like this."
Green Mars by #KimStanleyRobinson (1993) - 2nd book of a trilogy on how #Mars colonization would actually go down. Think underground scientist communes, multinational mining corpos, abused space migrant labour. It's dense but KSR is one of the best living scifi authors.
Everfair by Nisi Shawl (2016) - #steampunk#AltHistory of armed resistance against King Leopold II in the late 1800s. Love the premise, but not loving the detached prose. 1/🧵
Bin mit #Waystation von Clifford D. Simak durch, war wieder ein sehr schönes Leseerlebnis von 1963.
Jetzt folgt ein weiterer Klassiker (für mich): #DieEisigenSäulenDesPluto von Kim Stanley Robinson. Auf dem Pluto entdecken Astronauten ein gigantisches Monument, das die gesamte Überlieferung der Menschen in Frage stellt. Denn die Säulen des Pluto wurden irgendwann in der Frühzeit von Menschenhand erbaut.
@thopan
Wie hat dir #DieEisigenSäulenDesPluto gefallen?
Ich hab es gerade durch und mir hat's gefallen. Also, die Handlung an sich, das Setting mit sehr langlebigen Menschen und die Folgen und natürlich das Geheimnis um die Säulen. Erschreckend der gesellschaftliche Zustand der Menschheit 🫣
Ist tatsächlich mein ersten Buch von #KimStanleyRobinson - macht Appetit auf mehr :)
Danke für den Hinweis auf Simak, klingt auch interessant.