Re: Recently Read

In article <d39c8955-e13a-41fc-9009-49006db58ec7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Will in New Haven <bill.reich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Aug 30, 1:43 pm, jdnic...@xxxxxxxxx (James Nicoll) wrote:

One of the background details I liked about THE HIDDEN WORLDS
was that none of the habitable worlds were all that Earthlike. One's best
regions were worse than Newfoundland's worst, another was far too arid
for comfort and the jewel that we see has a day that is 240 hours long.

"Worse than Newfoundland" and "habitable" do not seem, on first
glance, to be a possible combination. What does it have that
Newfoundland lacks? Carnasaurs?

The climate is even worse over most of the planet and it
does not seem to have evolved native land life, IIRC. It's actually
a pretty marginal colony and the people who control trade consider
simply abandoning it at one point. The locals think a collapse in
(subsidized) trade will be followed by a population and technological
collapse.

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