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Originally Posted by pmrid
I wonder whether, in years to come, the Chinese will use their hothouse vege garden on Olympus Mons as the basis for territorial claims - instead of gunboats, we will have broccoli diplomacy.
I recently re-read the Red/Green/Blue Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson after which the idea doesn't see all that remote.
Peter
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Haven't read that trilogy, must go and find it. But you're right, there is a dearth of good SciFi these days. Maybe reality is catching up with fiction and it's getting harder to write something original.