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Poll: Your favorite life extension novels

Posted: Jul 11, 2007

Looks like those of you with an opinion overwhelmingly favored the gradual, and very hard-science-based, adoption of life extension technologies depicted in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red, Green and Blue Mars series.

Those novels could also be considered technoprogressive classics all round, since they depict the fractious creation of a plausible, but wildly diverse, participatory social democracy on autonomous Mars, and very realistic descriptions of the technical challenges and political debates about terraforming that would accompany such a project. Under “other” there were also mentions of Richard Morgan’s Takeshi Kovacs series (in fact, I love them, and am reading Woken Furies right now) and Wil McCarthy’s more fantastical Queendom of Sol novels (all of which I have also happily read).

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