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From the Blue Planet to Google Earth
Ursula K. Heise
1. Vaster Than Empires
In her short story “Vaster Than Empires and More Slow,” science fiction novelist Ursula K. Le Guin describes the encounter of a group of humans with an ecosystem that cannot be understood as encompassing anything less than an entire planet. When a team of scientific explorers arrives on the planet called only World 4470, after a journey that has taken just a few hours in their personal time but 250 years in Earth time, they find all its continents inhabited…
e-flux Journal
Posted: December 1, 2013
Category
Internet, Nature & Ecology
Subjects
Science Fiction, Planet Earth , Networks, Environment