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How Many Times Can a Planet Explode?

What I used to like about science fiction, "To Be a Machine," and imagining a better future (Part 2)

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Martha Nichols
Oct 10, 2023
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As promised, Inside Readers, this is the next part of my essay about why doomsday scenarios in science fiction hurtle past real-world problems.

You don’t have to read the parts sequentially. Each part travels down different worm holes before emerging somewhere else.

Part 1: “Star Trek and Failures of Imagination.”

Here is Part 2.

Gorn and Captain Kirk in “…
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