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(ReacTor) Five SF Stories Featuring Unsuccessful Attempts at Space Colonization

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From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
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Subject: (ReacTor) Five SF Stories Featuring Unsuccessful Attempts at Space Colonization
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by: James Nicoll - Thu, 21 Mar 2024 14:07 UTC

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by: Tony Nance - Sun, 24 Mar 2024 18:24 UTC

On 3/21/24 10:07 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
> Five SF Stories Featuring Unsuccessful Attempts at Space Colonization
>
> What wondrous discoveries await the pioneers of tomorrow? In many cases,
> final ones.
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> https://reactormag.com/five-sf-stories-featuring-unsuccessful-attempts-at-space-colonization/

Most colonies in Wells' Murderbot series are established by
corporations, and they can fail additional "corporate" reasons beyond
the failure modes we're more familiar with (like hostile environment,
disease, etc) - the corporation can go bankrupt, or there's a hostile
takeover, or not enough resources are given for terraforming &
adaptation, or the corporation needs to hide or disavow the existence of
said colony.

I don't remember any particular colony being featured, but it comes up
somewhat often in Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky that colonies get lost,
and/or fail, and/or implode, especially in the technology-restricted Zones.

Tony

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by: Lynn McGuire - Wed, 27 Mar 2024 21:54 UTC

On 3/21/2024 9:07 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
> Five SF Stories Featuring Unsuccessful Attempts at Space Colonization
>
> What wondrous discoveries await the pioneers of tomorrow? In many cases,
> final ones.
>
> https://reactormag.com/five-sf-stories-featuring-unsuccessful-attempts-at-space-colonization/

I have only read the Heinlein.

Lynn

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arts / rec.arts.sf.written / Re: (ReacTor) Five SF Stories Featuring Unsuccessful Attempts at Space Colonization

Subject	Author
(ReacTor) Five SF Stories Featuring Unsuccessful Attempts at Space Colonization	James Nicoll
Re: (ReacTor) Five SF Stories Featuring Unsuccessful Attempts at Space Colonizat	Tony Nance
Re: (ReacTor) Five SF Stories Featuring Unsuccessful Attempts at Space Colonizat	Lynn McGuire