I posted this on Reddit a while ago and it sparked some really good discussion and recommendations.

I really like The Expanse - as it doesn’t just discuss the attempted terraforming of Mars and the colonisation of the Main Asteroid Belt but also

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the way that these communities decline when abundant habitable planets are discovered, where life is much easier.

So yeah, what are your best examples?

  • perviouslyiner@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Asimov’s End of Eternity is a great exploration of the practical problems of time travel.

    • The amount of bureaucracy and the specialist expertise needed to plan an intervention in the timeline,
    • The rules for whether to even intervene,
    • The observers monitoring the ‘future’ after the change to report on its success.