Timeline for Flower Forest on an Earth locked with one side facing the Sun
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| May 9, 2019 at 14:19 | history | edited | Stormblessed |
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| May 9, 2019 at 14:17 | history | edited | Rand al'Thor♦ |
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| May 9, 2019 at 14:17 | history | rollback | Rand al'Thor♦ |
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| May 9, 2019 at 13:19 | history | rollback | Stormblessed |
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| May 7, 2019 at 11:25 | history | edited | user14111 |
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| May 7, 2019 at 11:16 | vote | accept | Invisible Trihedron | ||
| May 7, 2019 at 11:14 | answer | added | John Rennie | timeline score: 8 | |
| May 7, 2019 at 11:13 | comment | added | John Rennie | @InvisibleTrihedron OK, I'll write this up as an answer. | |
| May 7, 2019 at 11:00 | comment | added | Invisible Trihedron | Looks like you've found it. A Goodreads review by Manny says, "The story [is] set in the distant future. Women have stopped being able to bear children (as in P.D. James's The Children of Men), there is a Mad Scientist who may or may not be able to save humanity, and the Moon has for some reason crashed in the Pacific ocean. It's actually not at all bad!" (goodreads.com/book/show/1890378.The_Shores_of_Death) Thanks! | |
| May 7, 2019 at 10:52 | comment | added | John Rennie | Is it possible you've mixed up more than one book? Michael Moorcock's The Shores of Death has an Earth that has its rotation stopped by aliens, it has a Flower Forest (in capitals) and it has a mad scientist that the protagonists approach for help. But the Moon isn't embedded in the Earth (the mad scientist lives on a different planet) and the Earth's rotation is not started then stopped again. | |
| May 6, 2019 at 14:26 | history | edited | Invisible Trihedron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 6, 2019 at 13:40 | comment | added | Invisible Trihedron | Thanks. It's just a matter of time. | |
| May 5, 2019 at 20:20 | comment | added | Organic Marble | This is so distinctive that I'm sure I must never have read it. I hope you get an answer. | |
| May 5, 2019 at 18:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSciFi/status/1125097920062283777 | ||
| May 5, 2019 at 14:28 | comment | added | Spencer | @Valorum Suspension of disbelief and all that. In fact, this isn't the only story with the Moon embedded in the Earth poking out as a mountain. It's there in another story I just mentioned in a comment -- Phoenix in Obsidian by Michael Moorcock. | |
| May 5, 2019 at 14:10 | comment | added | Invisible Trihedron | That bothered me too. Another problem with the story is that once the Earth is set back to spinning, angular momentum would ensure that it would stay spinning. Simply having the machine fail isn't enough to stop it. | |
| May 5, 2019 at 14:05 | history | edited | Stormblessed | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 5, 2019 at 14:04 | comment | added | Valorum | I'm reasonably sure that if you dropped the moon onto the Earth very carefully, it would still cause the catastrophic destruction of the Earth's surface and everything on it. The crust of the Earth isn't even remotely strong enough to carry the weight of the moon and it would simply slip below the surface (into the liquid magma) and eventually the planet/s would become spherical again. | |
| May 5, 2019 at 14:04 | history | edited | Invisible Trihedron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 5, 2019 at 14:02 | history | edited | Stormblessed | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 5, 2019 at 13:52 | history | asked | Invisible Trihedron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |