jatay3
Since: Oct, 2010
May 2nd 2013 at 7:52:44 PM
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The sole reason in most mainstream sci-fi? Star Trek, Van Rjn/Flandry, Babylon 5, Vorkosigan, Honor Harrington, and on and on, all have Earth perfectly fine and pioneering motivated by economics and politics.
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zarpaulus
Since: Jan, 2001
May 3rd 2013 at 6:28:03 AM
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Only one of those I'd say was even close to "mainstream" would be Star Trek.
Just stashing these here for later.
Interplanetary Diaspora:
John Varley's Eight Worlds series
Bruce Sterling's Shaper/Mechanist series
Michael Swanwick's Vacuum Flowers
Wil Mc Carthy's Bloom:
John Barnes' Jak Jinnaka series: The Earth has been attacked by a barage of relativistic meteors, leaving it covered in craters. However, some time has passed, and although there is a wide-ranging off-planet civilization, the home planet is inhabited and thriving again.
Century Rain by Alastair Reynold
The Queendom of Sol series by Wil Mc Carthy
Terraforming Earth by Jack Williamson
The animated movie Titan A.E.
Moonseed by Stephen Baxter
Blade Runner (the movie, not the book)
Diaspora by Greg Egan
Heart of the Comet by David Brin and Gregory Benford
Echoes of the Earth by Sean Williams and Shane Dix
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