My vote is japanese knotweed is going to win, and it will do so with ease in my experience of seeing how difficult it is to get rid of.
Maybe the previous resident of the house was a scifi writer actually worth their salt and they created the plant royale to observe what that part of the earth would be uniformly covered in after the wild ecosystems are gone.
What am I kidding scifi writers only care about serious man topics like space war and space politics and the specific kinds of engines on imagined starships…
I like space war but space politics sounds really dumb. I want Neolithic cultures on pseudo ringworlds slung on planetary tethers down to supermind AI machine worlds beyond their wildest comprehension built by the star gods left behind in the wake of the human species.
I think Ian M. Banks (‘The Culture’ series) already had that, unless that’s specifically what you were referencing. Though humanity wasn’t a part of The Culture, as explicitly explained when they were viewing us like apes in a zoo, so the ringworlds with primitive cultures on them that had AI machine minds tending them weren’t from the wake of humanity.
My vote is japanese knotweed is going to win, and it will do so with ease in my experience of seeing how difficult it is to get rid of.
Maybe the previous resident of the house was a scifi writer actually worth their salt and they created the plant royale to observe what that part of the earth would be uniformly covered in after the wild ecosystems are gone.
What am I kidding scifi writers only care about serious man topics like space war and space politics and the specific kinds of engines on imagined starships…
looks down at the unfolding mass extinction
nothing to talk about here but electric sheep…
I like space war but space politics sounds really dumb. I want Neolithic cultures on pseudo ringworlds slung on planetary tethers down to supermind AI machine worlds beyond their wildest comprehension built by the star gods left behind in the wake of the human species.
Is that too much to ask?
I think Ian M. Banks (‘The Culture’ series) already had that, unless that’s specifically what you were referencing. Though humanity wasn’t a part of The Culture, as explicitly explained when they were viewing us like apes in a zoo, so the ringworlds with primitive cultures on them that had AI machine minds tending them weren’t from the wake of humanity.
You could write it?
Well, in a weird way that reminds of the background story to the board game Bonfire…
No ringworlds, just a dark planet with no ambient light to survive by.
https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/210854/the-world-of-bonfire-the-background-story
https://hallgames.de/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/The-world-of-Bonfire_web.pdf