![]() ![]() And the remote Dyson settlements in the Oort are bucolic biophile semi-utopias, offstage. The cislunar settlements, a no-man's-land between Humanity and the Comprise, are the dark anarchic Mean Streets. People's Mars, an unappealing collectivist state based on classical Sparta, is nonetheless making good progress terraforming Mars. ![]() For example, a police raid wouldn't require many police - temp-deputies could be imprinted on the spot. There is, umm, 'potential for abuse', and Swanwick has fun exploring the consequences of this technology. The Klusters are frontier-capitalist polities, more or less, with advanced biotech and neuro-engineering - most people spend their workday wetware-programmed by their employer, a (+/-) reversible process. The book opens in Eros Kluster, one of many asteroid-based settlements that form the bulk of Human space, after all of humanity on Earth was absorbed into the Comprise, a world-wide AI- and net-mediated group-mind. Vacuum Flowers is a grand tour of the inhabited Solar System, set in a medium-term future. ![]()
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