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Thread: Heaven: May Book Group: After Atlas by Emma Newman
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Jane R
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Yes, that's another thing... the food. I can see why she did it like that, but unless the Raptured start eating themselves how are they going to generate the biomass for their food printers? She says earlier on in the book that some of the raw materials used by the food printers are grown, not cooked up in a lab somewhere.
First SF novel I've ever read that didn't have a hydroponics garden somewhere on the colony ship.
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andras
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Originally posted by Jane R:
Yes, that's another thing... the food. I can see why she did it like that, but unless the Raptured start eating themselves how are they going to generate the biomass for their food printers? She says earlier on in the book that some of the raw materials used by the food printers are grown, not cooked up in a lab somewhere.
First SF novel I've ever read that didn't have a hydroponics garden somewhere on the colony ship.
Or suspended animation!
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Adrian Plass
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Sarasa
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Andras said:
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As Huxley wisely pointed out, The Right To Have A Good Time is seen as the most important right of all by an awful lot of people. Not much sign of that in After Atlas, unless you were one of the fortunate few who went to proper supermarkets and got greeted there by a glass of champers!
I don't know, if you liked printed food and playing 'mersive games and weren't one of the slaves I guess you might quite enjoy yourself.
I'm not at all sure she'd thought about what was goig to happen with the ship once it took off, but I do expect novel set in it when she's worked it out.
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Jane R
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I know at least one person who wouldn't mind existing on printed food. He once told me that he thinks of food as fuel and doesn't really care what it tastes like. And he's a gamer so he would probably love to spend most of his free time playing 'mersives.
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andras
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That sounds like my children coming back from a friend's party and telling us, 'It was wonderful, they had proper white sliced bread.'
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Adrian Plass
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Jane R
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And my daughter, whose lifelong ambition was to go to a Kentucky Fried Chicken (because her classmates were rhapsodising about how wonderful it was). We only went once, though... she actually prefers fruit and vegetables to greasy over-seasoned chicken.
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