Ice doom of DOOM!

[james_davis_nicoll]

The previous ice age lasted some 110,000 years and ended about 11,000 years ago. In other words, some 4,000 generations of humans knew of nothing but harsh winds and eternal snows. The apparently "normal'' periods between ice ages, like the present one, have averaged between 8,000 and 12,000 years. In short, the next ice age is overdue. The key question is when it will come. Can space be colonised by a sufficiently large population so that, when the next ice age strikes, it will not threaten the survival of the race?

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[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

He was the Daily Torygraph's science writer for many years, and actually not too bad until he got the idea that being able to explain other people's science (which he was tolerable at) meant that he was qualified to come up with his own.

He also, as his SFE entry notes, wrote a couple of SF novels. I read Koyama's Diamond many years ago and several parts of it have stuck in my mind for their sheer awfulness of characterisation and prose style.

[narmitaj.livejournal.com]

His father (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Berry,_Baron_Hartwell) was Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of the Telegraph up to 1986 and before that his uncle was (Adrian's uncle, that is).

[calcinations.livejournal.com]

Ah, how the establishment works- give jobs to younger member of it. They don't need to be wonderful, and awfulness does usually mean they lose their job, if htey are sufficiently junion enough, but basically if you can do a tolerable job of work they'll keep you on for life.