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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2011-04-30 04:31 am

Does there exist

An SF novel whose setting knowingly includes a global example of a Stage Five society?

[not interested in examples where death rates exceed birth rates for reasons due to calamities like war, famine, plague and the like; those aren't really Stage Five societies]

[identity profile] ross smith (from livejournal.com) 2011-04-30 08:08 am (UTC)(link)
A large chunk of Arthur C Clarke's output, e.g. Rendezvous With Rama and Imperial Earth.

-- Ross Smith

[identity profile] mmcirvin.livejournal.com 2011-04-30 11:20 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, Imperial Earth is the closest example I can think of. Most of the ones that look like Stage Five societies have some pathological explanation like an infertility plague in their past.

[identity profile] james-nicoll.livejournal.com 2011-05-02 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
As was pointed out to me, it has a Big Crash in its past.