Quote:
Originally Posted by mike_bike_kite
I was just reading Time for the Stars by Robert A. Heinlein (1956). The crew on the space ship are out in deep space and needing to either grow or recycle everything to survive. It made me smile to be reading a SciFi story on electronic paper about the crew of some future space craft who were having to recycle paper for their morning newspaper  |
There's a similar bit in C. M. Kornbluth's "Shark Ship". It's set in a future where Earth is overpopulated, and a chunk of humanity has chosen to put to sea in giant ships, living primarily off of what they can catch in great nets. Paper is one of the things recycled, as they have no convenient way to get more.
That's a side bit, as the plot of the story concerns a ship that suffers the worst possible disaster: it loses its net in a storm. Faced with starvation preceded by cannibalism, the crew chooses the previously unthinkable. They return to land. They return to a situation
very different than the one they left.
______
Dennis