It seems like there's a high % of science fiction readers on here. For a few reasons -- the main one being that I'm a frustratingly slow reader -- I have yet to dive in on any serious SF quests, and I end up getting lost in the meta-chatter. (pretty much sitting in the "I've heard Dune is good" camp)
Curious to hear some examples of works that you consider good/important, either for the genre or for you personally, and briefly why. They don't necessarily have to be novels, either.
@alex Cyberpunk can be fun -- try Neuromancer (Gibson) or Snowcrash (Stevenson). The genre tends to revolve around desperados surviving at the fringes of techno-corporate dystopias.
Probs my favourite is Ballard's The Drowned World. Hallucinatory and psychologically rich vision of post climate change earth.
And yes, Dune IS good. You really should read it.
"Desperados surviving at the fringes of techno-corporate dystopias."
-@riga summing up the whole premise of mastodon.
@arteteco Any thoughts on rebuilding forests from a #permaculture perspective? Young forests growing back after logging tend towards only a few tree species and even fewer undergrowth invasives.
How do you grow an old-growth forest that will mature in 300 years?
Hey, @rustyswarf, how is the food production going?
Well, it seriously depends on what do you want to do with that ecosystem... by "forest" we usually mean a plot that is mostly (>80%) covered by the tree crown. Funny enough, there is no term that highlights a forest as a complex, tree-dominated multi-storied ecosystem.
You mean to ask how to restore the previous, now degraded ecosystem? Or how to develop a food forest on a clear cut forest?
@arteteco I'm more oriented towards restoring the old ecosystem, but it's hard to know what that should look like.