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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five SF Novels About Being the Last People on Earth
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2025 22:24:31 -0500
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On 3/4/2025 10:37 AM, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> On 2025-03-03, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
> 
>> Five SF Novels About Being the Last People on Earth
>>
>> Five futures ranging from the bucolic to the dystopian...
>>
>> https://reactormag.com/five-sf-novels-about-being-the-last-people-on-earth/
> 
> Vernor Vinge, _Marooned in Realtime_ (1986).  Fifty million years
> after humanity just disappeared--poof!--Earth might indeed be
> described as bucolic, as the few remaining forward-time-traveling
> humans observe.  New species everywhere!

That was my first thought too.



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