Challenge: Try and combine the following Future Spec Literature titles into a (somewhat) cohesive timeline

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Challenge: Try and combine the following Future Spec Literature titles into a (somewhat) cohesive timeline
Topic Started: Aug 26 2017, 11:40 AM (461 Views)
Dazzle	Aug 26 2017, 11:40 AM Post #1
Fetus Posts: 24 Group: Members Member #2,218 Joined: Aug 3, 2017 Gender: Male Nationality: American Favorite Quote: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself...and giant man eating spiders" Also known as: Dazenza, (regretfully)Springtrapattacks, Nick, Neco	Life after Man by Dougal Dixon Man after Man by Dougal Dixon The Future is Wild by Dougal Dixon All Tomorrows by Nemo Ramjet The Life and Death of Plant Earth by Peter Ward Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon Evolution by Peter Ward Evolution by Stephan Baxter Demain les animaux du futur by Marc Boulay Edited by Dazzle, Aug 26 2017, 11:43 AM.



Dragonthunders	Aug 26 2017, 12:09 PM Post #2
The ethereal archosaur in blue Posts: 3,039 Group: Global Mods Member #690 Joined: Jan 22, 2012 Gender: Male Nationality: Salvadoran Favorite Quote: "There is only one war that can afford the human being: the war against their extinction" Isaac Asimov Also known as: DT, thunders Gender: still male	What do you mean with cohesive timeline?
	Projects "Active" projects The Future is Far Welcome to the next chapters of the evolution of life on earth, travel the across the earth on a journey that goes beyond the limits, a billion years of future history in the making. The SE giants project Wonder what is the big of the big on speculative evolution? no problem, here is the answer Coming one day Age of Mankind Humanity fate and its possible finals. The Long Cosmic Journey The history outside our world. The alternative paths The multiverse, the final frontier... Holocene park: Welcome to the biggest adventure of the last 215 million years, where the age of mammals comes to life again! Cambrian mars: An interesting experiment on an unprecedented scale, the life of a particular and important period in the history of our planet, the cambric life, has been transported to a terraformed and habitable mars in an alternative past. Two different paths, two different worlds, but same life and same weirdness. My deviantart


IIGSY	Aug 26 2017, 12:10 PM Post #3
A huntsman spider that wastes time on the internet because it has nothing better to do Posts: 3,763 Group: Members Member #1,987 Joined: Sep 11, 2016 Gender: Male Area of expertise: Future Evolution Favorite Quote: Don't have one Also known as: Anomonys Gender: male	>Dougal Dixon >Cohesive Pick one
	Projects Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates Last one crawling: The last arthropod ARTH-6810: A world without vertebrates (It's ded, but you can still read I guess) Potential ideas- Swamp world: A world covered in lakes, with the largest being caspian sized. Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal. Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents. Quotes "Arthropod respiratory systems aren't really "inefficient", they're just better suited to their body size. It would be quite inefficient for a tiny creature that can easily get all the oxygen it needs through passive diffusion to have a respiratory system that wastes energy on muscles that pump air into sacs. (Hence why lungless salamanders, uniquely miniscule and hyperabundant tetrapods, have ditched their lungs in favor of breathing with their skin and buccal mucous membranes.) But large, active insects already use muscles to pump air in and out of their spiracles, and I don't see why their tracheae couldn't develop pseudo- lungs if other conditions pressured them to grow larger."-HangingTheif "Considering the lifespans of modern non- insect arthropods (decade-old old millipedes, 50 year old tarantulas, 100+ year old lobsters) I wouldn't be surprised if Arthropleura had a lifespan exceeding that of a large testudine"-HangingTheif "Humans have a tribal mindset and it's not alien for tribes to war on each other. I mean, look at the atrocities chimpanzee tribes do to each other. Most of people's groupings and big conflicts in history are directly or obliquely manifestations of this tribal mindset."-Sceynyos-yis "He's the leader of the bunch You know his Coconut Gun is finally back to fire in spurts. His Coconut Gun Can make you smile If he shoots ya it's firing in spurts. His Coconut Gun Is bigger, faster, stronger too! He's the gun member of the Coconut Crew! HUH! C.G.! Coconut Gun! C.G.! Co-Coconut Gun! Shoot yourself with a Coconut Gun! HUH!"-Kamineigh "RIP, rest in Peytoia."-Little "In Summary: Piss on Lovecraft's racist grave by making lewds of Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep. Then eat arby's and embrace the void."-Kamineigh "Dougal Dixon rule 34."-Sayornis Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups In honor of the greatest clade of all time More pictures Other cool things http://rob-powell.deviantart.com/art/Venacarpia-carcarius-275086084 http://rob-powell.deviantart.com/art/Extreme-Sexual-Dimorphs-294860775 https://books.google.com/books?id=m-_cCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT94&lpg=PT94&dq=vertebrate+chauvinism&source=bl&ots=CenrvpmqxP&sig=sURud3Duu3K-2FEPdM9ls5ScDeA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjO1or7tIbTAhWGLSYKHUvLAjwQ6AEIcDAR#v=onepage&q=vertebrate%20chauvinism&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=wKbfbLf-SoUC&pg=PA282&lpg=PA282&dq=colonization+of+land+by+nematodes&source=bl&ots=0Z260TBWMQ&sig=JDFVZjaOIpYvEo9KaiLyUSEPK2g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjHrZ2dh5bTAhXMSSYKHUq_DboQ6AEIRDAF#v=onepage&q=colonization%20of%20land%20by%20nematodes&f=false All African countries can fit into Brazil


Dazzle	Aug 26 2017, 12:19 PM Post #4
Fetus Posts: 24 Group: Members Member #2,218 Joined: Aug 3, 2017 Gender: Male Nationality: American Favorite Quote: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself...and giant man eating spiders" Also known as: Dazenza, (regretfully)Springtrapattacks, Nick, Neco	By cohesive, I mean try to combine the main idea's/tropes. For instance the Gannetwhale from TFiW and the Aquatic Birds from Demain les animaux du futur. Like as in finding a general sense of events seen in multiple books. It doesn't need to be plausible or follow the exact same events in the books, but it needs to find a way to fit together.



peashyjah	Aug 26 2017, 01:34 PM Post #5
Bydo Posts: 983 Group: Members Member #1,744 Joined: Aug 14, 2015 Gender: Male Area of expertise: Future Evolution Nationality: American Favorite Quote: "Let's get stupid loud!" from SMFA. "You can't brush your damn teeth without a damn hook!!! " from Squidbillies.............. Gender: Male	Alright. I might do one with Man After Man and All Tomorrows.
	Discontinued projects: The New Ostracoderms (i might continue with this project again someday) The Americas (where in 58 million years from now in the future North and South America has both become isolated island continents) All Expansions (my attempt at expanding the universe of All Tomorrows by Nemo Ramjet aka C.M. Kosemen, started June 6, 2018) Anthropozoic (my attempt at expanding the universe of Man After Man and also a re-imagining of it, coming 2019 or 2020) New Cenozoica (my attempt at expanding the universe of The New Dinosaurs and also a re-imagining of it, also coming 2019 or 2020) All Alternatives or All Changes (a re-telling of All Tomorrows but with some minor and major "changes", coming June 10, 2018)


Tartarus	Aug 26 2017, 06:18 PM Post #6
Prime Specimen Posts: 1,774 Group: Members Member #705 Joined: Feb 1, 2012 Gender: Male Nationality: Australian	I think that to combine all of those future spec scenarios into one setting one would need to cut out a lot of bits from many, if not all, of them, as there are a lot of contradictory events between many of the different scenarios here. But if one is OK with cutting out certain parts then yeah I think its conceivable one could make a speculative shared setting from all of them.



Rodlox	Aug 26 2017, 09:32 PM Post #7
Superhuman Posts: 3,112 Group: Members Member #21 Joined: Jun 28, 2008	what if we haven't read all of those books?
	.---------------------------------------------. Parts of the Cluster Worlds: "Marsupialless Australia" (what-if) & "Out on a Branch" (future evolution) & "The Earth under a still sun" (WIP)


Dazzle	Aug 27 2017, 10:07 AM Post #8
Fetus Posts: 24 Group: Members Member #2,218 Joined: Aug 3, 2017 Gender: Male Nationality: American Favorite Quote: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself...and giant man eating spiders" Also known as: Dazenza, (regretfully)Springtrapattacks, Nick, Neco	I'm sure they can be found online, or at least a summary



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