The Long Tomorrow
"No city, no town, no community of more than one thousand people or two hundred buildings to the square mile, shall be built or permitted to exist anywhere in the United States of America." --Constitution of the United States, Thirtieth Amendment Two generations after the Destruction, rumors persist about a secret desert hideaway where scientists worked with dangerous machines and where men plot to revive the cities. Almost a continent away, Len Coulter has heard whisperings that fired his imagination. And then one day he finds a strange wooden box...
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- Also the very good post-nuclear holocaust novel, The Long Tomorrow (1955) which is a personal favorite.
- You realize not a single person has mentioned a female author? Let's fix that:
The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett
The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Among Others by Jo Walton
Feed by Mira Grant
The Hunger Games!
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
Grass by Sheri S Tepper
Gate of Ivrael and Downbelow Station by CJ Cherryh
And the fabulous space opera:
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
- In essence a site for those who like their day to day health practices to start from the ground floor of a completely reductionist scientific view of the origins of modern human health. Though I suspect that everyone who really thinks that way is already practicing calorie restriction.
A digest of what this is and where it's going here:
http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2011/05/a-look-at-55-thes...
I think it is a pity that most researchers don't in fact write a book or two outlining their view of science, the world, and progress at some point in their career. Scientific papers are a narrow and entirely insufficient window into a larger worldview, and many scientists have very broad and ambitious visions for the future of their field and the resulting technology. Michael Rose is one such scientist, and has written a few books along the way, of which I recommend the Long Tomorrow for an introduction to his view of aging and necessary strategic directions in the development of longevity science.
My attention was recently drawn to a site called 55 Theses that goes a step further and assembles Rose's ideas in an online series of posts, videos, and small essays - and then asks "knowing this, what can we do to make a difference in our own health and longevity?"
- I'm unclear about what he means by the word "collapse". If by collapse he means a The Road or Waterworld style nuclear- or eco-apocalypse is inevitable, then there is literally nothing I would change about the world today, except that I'd recommend using our resources faster, on the theory that you should smoke 'em if you got 'em. I wouldn't tell anyone to bother learning how blacksmithing or how to grow a three sisters garden in that scenario. If he means a slow apocalypse, a Long Tomorrow style return to a world without electricity, that's a very different conversation. This article feels like a rant to me.
- First page of "The Long Tomorrow" , "Art" by Moebius http://www.bulledair.com/index.php?rubrique=planche&album=lo...
These http://www.openculture.com/2018/09/long-tomorrow-discover-mo... and https://www.neondystopia.com/cyberpunk-books-fiction/the-leg... discuss the influences that The Long Tomrorow had.
On Moebius in general, https://www.moebius.fr/?lng=en is a good starting point.
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