It's also interesting how very few, if any, SF writers adopt the "rare life" position. There are always tons of planets with basically Earthlike environments and even native life people can eat, even if humans are the only intelligent (or technological) species.
I'd like to see a setting in which _life_ is common but _multicellular_ life is vanishingly rare. So there are plenty of worlds where the oceans are a soup of single-celled organisms but the land is barren and erosion-scarred. Humans could move right in, but they'd have to do a lot of terraforming to make the place livable.
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Date: 2010-12-14 01:30 pm (UTC)I'd like to see a setting in which _life_ is common but _multicellular_ life is vanishingly rare. So there are plenty of worlds where the oceans are a soup of single-celled organisms but the land is barren and erosion-scarred. Humans could move right in, but they'd have to do a lot of terraforming to make the place livable.
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