I remember being really mad because I thought it would be about Meg's daughter, maybe with Meg in it too! Alas. And forty years later it appears that I'm still mad! Some grudges are worth it.
Dragons in the Waters had no dragons, and The Young Unicorns no unicorns. ETA: for that matter, A Wrinkle in Time had no wrinkles in time, only in space. At least this one does have starfish?
That article mentions something in that series that I'd never heard of before: "Intergalactic P.S. 3". It looks like an odd prototype for A Wind in the Door.
Regeneration, especially if it enormously increased the human lifespan, would be extraordinarily disruptive to social structures. And if it was implemented without big changes to how we work with our planet, the environmental results would be catastrophic. I mean, worse than we're currently facing.
Well, on a smaller problem scale, if it's easy and quick enough to regenerate body parts, then it's less of a problem to send your armies in more often, and to have them fight more brutally.
Immortality would change the annual rate of world population growth from 130 million - 50 million = 80 million to 130 million - 0 million = 130 million. If you're not bothered by the first, you shouldn't be bothered by the second.
I think the graphic at the beginning of "Torchwood: Miracle Day" represents a common belief that births and deaths are in a fine balance such that, if people stop dying, the population rate will suddenly zoom up by a multiple of the current rate.
Immortality would change the annual rate of world population growth from 130 million - 50 million = 80 million to 130 million - 0 million = 130 million. If you're not bothered by the first, you shouldn't be bothered by the second.
I think the graphic at the beginning of "Torchwood: Miracle Day" represents a common belief that births and deaths are in a fine balance such that, if people stop dying, the population rate will suddenly zoom up by a multiple of the current rate.
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Interested in polyamory, but only with men. "The one of many hims"?
Thanks, I'll see myself out.
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(Anonymous) 2020-01-26 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)I read the first 3 of the Time series, and bounced hard off of "Many Waters", and I don't think I read anything else by L'Engle.
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Time Quintet? 5 books? Huh, I'd never heard of An Acceptable Time. Is it any good?
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Maybe she was thinking something like this?
"It's no good, Mac! Even if you blow the Red troops to pieces, each piece grows into a new Red!"
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Edit: Nope, I am wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_L%27Engle
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Speaking of Many Waters
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(Anonymous) 2020-01-30 12:47 pm (UTC)(link)I think the graphic at the beginning of "Torchwood: Miracle Day" represents a common belief that births and deaths are in a fine balance such that, if people stop dying, the population rate will suddenly zoom up by a multiple of the current rate.
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I think the graphic at the beginning of "Torchwood: Miracle Day" represents a common belief that births and deaths are in a fine balance such that, if people stop dying, the population rate will suddenly zoom up by a multiple of the current rate.
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