I posted this on Reddit a while ago and it sparked some really good discussion and recommendations.

I really like The Expanse - as it doesn’t just discuss the attempted terraforming of Mars and the colonisation of the Main Asteroid Belt but also

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the way that these communities decline when abundant habitable planets are discovered, where life is much easier.

So yeah, what are your best examples?

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Ian McDonald’s Luna series explores a libertarian hypercapitalist moon society. I’ll read anything he writes, a lot of his books fit the OP’s request, honestly.