Your Metaphor of the Day: If Planets Were Countries
Strange Maps today has a post with an interesting graphic comparing the planets of the solar system to various countries around the world.
If Jupiter = Russia, then Mars = Switzerland! (Din't Piers Anthony have a series, back in the '80s, with a very similar premise?)
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"(Didn't Piers Anthony have a series, back in the '80s, with a very similar premise?)"
BIO OF A SPACE TYRANT? Not that I read it.
Jack Williamson had something similar, where America claimed the Moon for itself (since it was the only body that could be reasonably exploited by the nuclear rockets of the day), then generously allowed all the other nations of the world to claim the other planets, none of which could be reached.
The following year, paragravity got invented....
Posted by: James Nicoll | April 13, 2007 10:19 AM