In article <
20170...@crcomp.net>,
g...@crcomp.net says...
>
> Peter Trei <
pete...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Monday, September 18, 2017 at 10:53:58 AM UTC-4, Juho Julkunen wrote:
> >> In article <opni3l$t4u$
1...@dont-email.me>,
lynnmc...@gmail.com says...
> >> >
> >> > I am reading the book _Wool_ and am halfway through. This is the most
> >> > depressing book that I have read in a decade. But, it is so good. Does
> >> > it ever get less depressing ? It is about the x,000 inhabitants of a
> >> > 144 story underground silo about 200 years after something poisoned the air.
> >> >
https://www.amazon.com/Wool-Hugh-Howey/dp/1476733953/
> >>
> >> Goddangit. If it turns out the outside is in fact fine by now and
> >> higher-ups (socially and physically) maintain the ruse to remain at the
> >> top of the heap, I can cross another one off the ol' ideas list.
> >
> > Its already been used in PKD's 'The Penultimate Truth'.
I was under no delusion that the premise was original. It's just that
from cursory look _Wool_ seemed to match a number of specific details.
> _Hellstrom's Hive_ (Herbert) twists the underground human ant colony
> into an ascendant force. At first blush, the colony seems like a utopia,
> but is it truly? Only the reader knows for sure.
I didn't think _Hellstrom's Hive_ looked particularly utopian at any
point.
It was also an indirect inspiration for my hypothetical story, via the
Human Hive from _Sid Meier's Alpha Centaury_ by Brian Reynolds. The
game draws from a lot of SF, but Kim Stanley Robinson and Frank Herbert
seem to be the most prominent sources.
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Juho Julkunen