orenwolf:
With the rise of digital storage on decidedly non-permanent media, I’ve always wondered if all ens finding is in the distant future witll have a @Mindysan33 historian equivalent who will surmise that we peaked in the Renaissance era simply because the structures and archives from that time are still preserved and available, while it seems that after this period, everything disintegrated on unreadable media, or development devolved to rusted metal structures or a fine film of microplastics covering everything.
This sounds like the premise behind Glasshouse, except that was mostly set in an approximate re-enactment of 1950-2000s conservative small town America in a repurposed 27th century military prison ship.
Glasshouse is a science fiction novel by British author Charles Stross, first published in 2006.
In 2007, Glasshouse won the Prometheus Award, as well as being nominated for the Hugo, Campbell, and Locus Awards.
The novel is set in the 27th century aboard a spacecraft adrift in interstellar space. Robin, the protagonist, has recently had his memory erased. He agrees to take part in an experiment, during which he is placed inside a model of a late 20th/early 21st century Euroamerican society....
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