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"I don't know why I write science fiction. The voices in my head told me to!"
- Charles Stross
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| Life Bank | ||
| A storage facility with the genetic material that was produced by Earth's ecosystem. |
Can we take some of the Earth's biosphere with us if we are forced to leave our planet?
| There had been a time when wheat, soybeans, potatoes, corn and rice had been the major foods of the human race. Now there was no one alive who had ever seen them.
But they existed in the Life Bank, as did virtually every plant and animal that existed on Old Earth. |
| From The Ophiuchi Hotline,
by John Varley. Published by Quantum Science Fiction in 1977 Additional resources -
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Compare to the genetic ark from Earth, a 1990 novel by David Brin.
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