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(ReacTor) Five SF Novels That Dabble in Environmental Determinism

From James Nicoll@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 8 17:08:50 2025

Five SF Novels That Dabble in Environmental Determinism

From the Moon to undersea cities, these SF settings shape societies
(and drive the plot).

https://reactormag.com/five-sf-novels-that-dabble-in-environmental-determinism/ --
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From Charles Packer@21:1/5 to James Nicoll on Fri Jan 10 08:54:21 2025

On Wed, 8 Jan 2025 17:08:50 -0000 (UTC), James Nicoll wrote:

Five SF Novels That Dabble in Environmental Determinism

From the Moon to undersea cities, these SF settings shape societies (and drive the plot).

https://reactormag.com/five-sf-novels-that-dabble-in-environmental-

determinism/

It's fitting that three of the five were published in the 1970s.
That's when the environmental movement took off:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph? content=Environmental+Protection+Agency%2Cenvironmental+&year_start=1900&year_end=2019&corpus=en-
US&smoothing=0
Shortened: https://tinyurl.com/wcf6w4pk

The wide swings parallel, very roughly, Democratic control of
the Senate:

https://web.education.wisc.edu/nwhillman/index.php/2017/02/01/party- control-in-congress-and-state-legislatures/
Shortened: https://tinyurl.com/mpwkx9k9
(I read it so nobody else has to.)

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