Smiles Awake You When You Rise
The Tenth Planet
By Edmund Cooper
15 Nov, 2020
Because My Tears Are Delicious To You
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Edmund Cooper’s 1973 The Tenth Planet is a standalone SF novel.
Having challenged the Earth’s capacity to accommodate overpopulation and pollution (and lost), the bulk of humanity faces an inevitable demise due to rapid-onset climate change and the chaos that follows. Everyone on Earth, even the large-breasted women, will die. Only the colonies on the Moon and on Mars might survive what is to come.
Under Idris Hamilton’s command, the Dag Hammarskjold sets off from Woomera, intent on delivering one last cargo of children slumbering away in cold sleep. Scarcely has the spacecraft set out than three explosive devices set by saboteurs, disgruntled at being left behind, blow the Dag Hammarskjoldapart, killing all aboard.
Five thousand years later…