Re: Rearranging the Solar System

jdnicoll@xxxxxxxxx (James Nicoll) writes:

> So what I am looking for is SFnal examples of re-ordered Solar
> Systems, with two conditions: the re-ordering must not have occured due
> to a catastrophe (so no "the mataglap ate it all" or "the UberAI have
> transformed the inner system to their needs" or "Linen. All is linen.")
> and ideally, while getting there might require new science (although
> it doesn't have to), I'd prefer it if the final result weren't _obviously_
> impossible (so no planets connected by cables).

Well, let's see. The Lensmen clean up the asteroid belt, maybe in
Gray Lensman?

And in The Venus Belt, L. Neil Smith turns Venus into a *new* asteroid
belt, because asteroids are more useful than planets. (That's in some
sense catastrophic, but it's intentional and carefully planned, not
accidental.)

Doc Smith also moves a Chloran planet around early on, and rescues a
galaxy worth of Earth-like planets and establishes them in solar
systems in another galaxy (and then destroys the whole galaxy full of
Chloran planets) in Skylark Duquesne.

The Moties had tidied up their solar system pretty thoroughly.
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