Yeah, I guess a bunch of his short stories are in the same future-visioning (I only have read one), and so are Ship Breaker and The Drowned Cities.
One thing Little Springtime and I wondered about was how come so many currently available--and historically available, i.e., pre-Industrial Revolution--technologies for power generation weren't in evidence. I understand that oil is supposed to be pretty much gone, and we're told about wars over coal, but how about hydro power? How about wind power (clipper ships do use it, but)? Breeding megadonts (which are going to need an awful lot of calories in *feed* to do their calorie-using work) doesn't seem like a very efficient way to get power.
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Date: 2015-07-04 11:19 am (UTC)One thing Little Springtime and I wondered about was how come so many currently available--and historically available, i.e., pre-Industrial Revolution--technologies for power generation weren't in evidence. I understand that oil is supposed to be pretty much gone, and we're told about wars over coal, but how about hydro power? How about wind power (clipper ships do use it, but)? Breeding megadonts (which are going to need an awful lot of calories in *feed* to do their calorie-using work) doesn't seem like a very efficient way to get power.