Re: (ReacTor) Five SF Stories Featuring Unsuccessful Attempts at Space Colonization

On 3/21/24 10:07 AM, James Nicoll wrote:

Five SF Stories Featuring Unsuccessful Attempts at Space Colonization
 What wondrous discoveries await the pioneers of tomorrow? In many cases,
final ones.
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Most colonies in Wells' Murderbot series are established by corporations, and they can fail additional "corporate" reasons beyond the failure modes we're more familiar with (like hostile environment, disease, etc) - the corporation can go bankrupt, or there's a hostile takeover, or not enough resources are given for terraforming & adaptation, or the corporation needs to hide or disavow the existence of said colony.
I don't remember any particular colony being featured, but it comes up somewhat often in Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky that colonies get lost, and/or fail, and/or implode, especially in the technology-restricted Zones.
Tony