>humans fuck up the entire Earth's ecosystem>abandon Earth to conquer the stars>humanity left behind becomes more and more transhuman and decadent, yet slowly dwindles away>before going extinct humanity uses genetic engineering to introduce genetically-engineered sub-human types to the different, recently vacated biomes of the Earth, incl. the sea, tundra, desert, and the carboniferous & deciduous forests of the planet, to take up their respective niches in their ecosystems>over millions of years, the genetically-engineered sub-humans evolve to adapt to shifting climate, some go extinct while those who have successfully adapted thrive>After 5 million years humanity returns from colonizing the stars and completely strips the Earth of all of its resources & life>it was all for naughtFor what purpose?
The ending was disappointing, yeah. Still oddly satisfying, however.
>>25388802It's misery porn meant to induce depression and self loathing. Between asteroid mining, space industrialization, and solar power we can—if we choose—solve all the problems that the author thought were hopeless.
>>25389896>t. didn't read the book
>>25388802I enjoyed a lot, but I felt sorry for the terra niggas that got enslaved by the ayyy (former terra) niggas.
>>25389928...and all that was left was the anaerobic single-celled bacteria lurking near volcanic vents at the bottom of the deepest oceans, eventually over hundreds of millions of years more becoming something vaguely resembling the Aquatics in intelligence and civilization.
Boump
>>25388802What a shitty plot, something I would come up with high on weed during my high school years. Imagine writing plain and boring Sci fi. Wtf.
>>25392054It really isn't nearly as bad as that.
I liked the other one with the qu. I want to see the snake people now!
>>25392148All Tomorrows is cool too! I liked the people who were basically flat, interconnected tiles of flesh.
>>25392159Yuck! Those were the ones that fought the hardest so we're punished the worst.
>>25392166*were
>>25388802>For what purpose?To make you experience disgust
>>25392166What do you mean they were punished? The only punishing I remember happening in the book was towards the beginning when the Qu had enslaved humanity and genetically engineered them. IIRC the genetic engineering by the Qu was the punishing. But the Qu are come and gone like less than ¼ of the way thru the book and the rest of the story is about the consequences of their cruelty.
"Speculative evolution" must be the most sophomoric form of sci-fi. It's gross-out stories and smut pretending to be insightful.
>>25392197>It's gross-out stories and smut pretending to be insightful.It really isn't though.
For me, it's the Tundra-dwellers.
>>25392054>I-I could have written thisSomeone's pissy he didn't beat Dixon to the punch.
>hence
>>25392197This. It's such a "whoa what if" subgenre that is usually extremely nihilistic and funnily enough most of them have almost zero understanding of how evolution actually works.
What were the Hitek's fucking problem?
Also a big fan of these niggas.
>>25392512Sex deprivation.
