Dimensional Traveler <
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-0800 typed in rec.arts.sf.written the following:
On 2/3/2024 4:34 PM, Tony Nance wrote:
On 2/3/24 7:22 PM, William Hyde wrote:
On Saturday, February 3, 2024 at 7:24:36?AM UTC-5, Tony Nance wrote:
On 2/1/24 12:09 PM, James Nicoll wrote:
Five Ways Authors Motivate Characters to Leave Earth Behind
How to attract workers to toxic, nearly airless, radiation-bombarded >>>>> Mars,
hellish Venus, or even the bone-eroding microgravity of the
asteroids when
there's a perfectly habitable planet available?
https://reactormag.com/five-ways-authors-motivate-characters-to-leave-earth-behind/
I'm a little blurry on the specific details, but I'm pretty sure old
folks volunteered to leave Earth behind in Scalzi's Old Man's War. Of
course, they didn't quite know what they were getting into, but....
As I recall they got a new, young, body, but were required to take
part in
the wars.� If they stayed on earth they'd die a natural death.
If memory serves, you signed up to do a hitch, and were rewarded
with the future equivalent of a "40 acres and a mule."
William Hyde
That is my memory as well - but I don't think they knew that's what they
were getting, because (I think) nobody had ever come back to Earth.
The off-world colonies were a secret from the general public on Earth IIRC.
The status of the colonies, and the fact we were often in a war
over said colonies was downplayed.
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