From:	Sir Charles [chalz@earthlink.net]
Sent:	Monday, May 28, 2001 2:00 PM
To:	blue_planet@lists.ient.com
Subject:	Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Any reading suggestions?

> "Heavy Weather" by Bruce Sterling.  Set on Earth (possible
> WoH analog?) but it does relate to BP, it's got some cool tech
> and strange storms.  I also thought "OceanSpace" by Allen
> Steele was a good book for BP ideas.
   Did I mention Peter F. Hamilton?  Hope I didn't forget :)
   The last couple books of his trilogy deal with Earth and the ..
climatological(?) hell it had become.  How entire cities had to become
domed-over arcologies with transportation in between primarily through high
speed 'vactrains'.  How the atmosphere was largely wrecked through heat -
not chemicals.  Fusion power generators allowed for cheap, easy, small power
generation plants.  They were able to be used safely by smaller, poorer
countries, which allowed them to more easily industrialize and modernize,
which created greater usage and need, greater power demands, more plants to
be put online, etcetc.  All resulting in a *tremendous* heat output which
just simply couldn't be dissipated fast enough by the planet.  Different
cause, same result.

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From:	Atti2dboy@aol.com
Sent:	Monday, May 28, 2001 12:29 AM
To:	blue_planet@lists.ient.com
Subject:	Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Any reading suggestions?

Typhon's Children and Riders of Leviathan by Toni Anzetti.

Both are set on the water world of Typhon where a colony of humans is
having difficulties surviving on their adopted world. The colonists lost
much of their technology when a volcanic eruption destroyed their first
settlement. Typhon's Children is set several years after this calamity
when the colonists are having trouble surviving Typhon's hostile
environment without their machines. The world the colonists hail from
was very orderly and nonviolent. Now the colonist are poorly equipped
to defend themselves from the savage predators of Typhon. Another
problem the colonists have to deal with is that all of the children born on
Typhon have genetic defects. The cause of the defects is unknown and
with much of their equipment lost the older colonists' prime concern is
that of daily survival.

Anzetti's writing is vivid and clear. Her main characters are interesting
and sympathetic. I highly recommend both Typhon's Children and Riders
of Leviathan.

Rich

In a message dated 5/24/01 1:48:56 AM, cudraoi@uswest.net writes:

>Both Fiction and Non-fiction,
>
>    ...since I'm trying to get my focus to be along the lines of some solid
>Sci-Fi, namely for a Blue Planet session.
>
>    Any ideas?
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