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Aurora

An ecological novel disguised as hard sci-fi.

Gordon
Jan 14, 20181 min read

An ecological novel disguised as hard sci-fi. A generation ship is headed toward the nearest earth-like planet. They must keep their little terrarium in balance.

Abstract climate concerns become concrete problems when you shrink the biosphere by many orders of magnitude. It's a story about carrying capacity, island ecology, inbreeding, sick building syndrome, eutrophication, and ecological niches.

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