Re: Why Planetary Bias in SF? Was: Terraforming Mars by cra****ng comets into it

You and I view this similarly.

I mention planetary chauvinism in this FAQ: 
http://space.mike-combs.com/spacsetl.htm#mainstream

This article mentions the advantages space settlement might have over Mars
settlement: http://writings.mike-combs.com/case_spc.htm

This article is specifically on the subject of the tendency toward
planetary
chauvinism: http://writings.mike-combs.com/somewhere_else.htm

I write some amateur science fiction which is set in a universe where
orbital habitats was the route chosen over planetary colonization.  Yeah,
I
agree that space settlements make for a challenging setting for
action-driven SF, mostly because they solve so many problems.

http://writings.mike-combs.com/shortstories.htm

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