Week 1, Story 10 – @baboonicorn & @AdlaiM

by | Oct 27, 2015 | Dying Earth, Mars, planetary romance, Political, SFSwap, Week 1 | 4 comments

I love Mars stories, and especially those dealing with colonists’ relationship with Earth, so I was excited to receive @AdlaiM’s prompt for the story below. @Baboonicorn does it proud – the flavour of the characters and the corporate logic of the world …

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  1. @mrmoth
    @mrmoth on October 27, 2015 at 10:24 am

    “they’d swapped one group of autocratic, distant oligarchs with another who did not even have distance to commend them.” I’m just going to stand on my chair and applaud this.

    And the rest of the story, well, it’s hardly implausible is it? A future history.

  2. Adlai
    Adlai on October 27, 2015 at 10:34 am

    This is exactly as bleak as i’d hoped. LOVED the failed mammoth cloning bit!

  3. @danielmbase
    @danielmbase on October 27, 2015 at 11:42 am

    I think this is my favourite so far – disturbingly real characters, subtle exposition and mammoths on Mars.

    This is all actually going to happen one day, isn’t it?

    Great story (and prompt)!

  4. James Clayton
    James Clayton on October 28, 2015 at 3:38 pm

    Excellent stuff! The concept calls to mind ‘The Moon is a Harsh Mistress’ by Robert A. Heinlein but this is very much its own thing on Mars. A great prompt executed fantastically (with cutting contemporary social commentary as well).