Desperation, Loneliness, and Murder (science fiction book REVIEW of Earthrise)
Generalizations to be made about humankind abound... but for right now, let’s go with something on the lines of, “after humans have completely effed up one place, it’s a sure thing they’ll soon seek out the next place to take over (and immediately set about effing it up in similar fashion)” . I mean, it’s pretty much one of our signature moves. It isn’t much of a stretch, then, to envision a not-that-far-off future in which we’ve plundered all of Earth’s once-bountiful resources, along with overpopulating our planet to the point of having to seek out new digs to inhabit... namely, the Moon . But what comes after that ... once the Moon—with its considerably smaller size and limited resources—has likewise been pillaged and overrun by greedy bipedal interlopers? The next, most-obvious (meaning, least-inhospitable of all remotely-viable options ) candidate, of course. The Red Planet. Mars. The thing is, we humans are never content with just brutal pioneering. No, we come