Five SF Stories About Owning the Entire Earth

[james_davis_nicoll]

What happens when one individual owns the whole planet?

Five SF Stories About Owning the Entire Earth

Comments

[james_davis_nicoll]

Tor dot com article 542, 2025 article 11

458 articles to go to article 1000.

[jreynolds197]

Did your entry for Jupiter Ascending originally credit the Wachowskis, as shown in the article, or the Wachowski Sisters?

If the latter, Tor changed it and has knuckled under.

[james_davis_nicoll]

Jupiter Ascending, film by Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski (2015)

Huh. Let me go point that out.

[james_davis_nicoll]

And now I annoyed my editor. Go me.

[patrick_morris_miller]

"Call Him Lord" by Gordon R. Dickson (1966)

Thanks for the earworm.

[jessie_c]

lEon skuM is giving us a preview.

[patrick_morris_miller]

He thinks. More likely he's speedrunning the backstory of Car Wars.

[jessie_c]

I keep thinking that he thinks he's Tony Stark but he's really Justin Hammer.

[mikeda]

This is probably unnecessarily insulting to Justin Hammer...

[patrick_morris_miller]

I was about to say 'at least Justin Hammer's head doesn't look like a butt plug', but that's not Leon Skum, it's Marc Andreesen or however it's spelled I can't be bothered to look it up.

[sylvanwitch]

Too soon, sir. Too. Soon.

[(Anonymous)]

I hate movies in macular-degeneration-vision too. Will someone please turn on a fcking light?!!

Also the premise in Knight Moves of people having to leave Earth to gain an extended life reminds me somewhat of Scalzi's Old Man's War. When a person reaches 75, they can leave Earth to join the ... space marines?... and their minds are transferred into a young enhanced cloned body. They must serve in the off planet armed forces for a minimum amount of time, and as long as they re-up they continue to keep young cloned bodies. Once they retire, they are transferred to a standard young-but-aging body, and are required to live on a colony planet. They are not allowed to return to Earth or to contact anyone on Earth. I believe this is all to keep people on Earth ignorant of what goes on in the greater universe, although I can't remember why.

-Awesome Aud