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A comment on The Toynbee Convector.

Re:The Toynbee Convector by Jun8 on Monday October 18, 2021 @05:21PM (#28911926)
“This is a reference to Arnold J. Toynbee,[1] who proposed that civilisation must respond to a challenge in order to flourish.”

A recent work that I love which uses this idea is the Dark Forest Trilogy, where detecting the existence of aliens stimulates human progress.

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Re:The Toynbee Convector by pkdpic_y9k on Monday October 18, 2021 @05:37PM (#28912108)
Couldn't agree more, anything and everything by Liu Cixin. Although now that I think about it Three Body / Dark Forest / Deaths End are the only works of his Ive read where theres any serious amount of quasi time travel. But its just done so incredibly well.

Just have to give Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson a shoutout too, could definitely use some time travel though...

Sorry, spoiler alert?

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