![]() It is no-holds-barred, no-punches-pulled posthumanity. Diaspora is a vision of a possible future, one in which humanity has diversified itself, speciated itself, and it attempting to find a way to survive.ĭiaspora is a challenging novel, intentionally so. If we are going to migrate, we will adapt our forms-in body, or just in mind. ![]() Considering how much we differ from our hominin ancestors a million years ago, I suspect that evolution-natural or artificially-induced-will carry us away from this body plan. Of course, if we are around in a billion, let alone ten billion years, I somehow doubt we would recognize our future selves. Even if we manage to emigrate to the outer solar system or other solar systems entirely, we’re still just buying time until the end of the universe-whether it’s heat death or a Big Crunch or something else entirely. A few billion years after that, the Sun will engulf Earth itself-bye, bye, homeworld. ![]() ![]() We only have about a billion years left before the Sun swells so much that it cooks the atmosphere. Even if we manage to avoid eco-catastrophe (and I’m optimistic on this), that’s only a small hurdle in the grand scheme of the cosmos. Keeping Earth habitable is a pressing concern today. ![]()
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