flix on Nostr: In Vernor Vinge's novel "A Deepness in the Sky" the space trading Queng Ho culture is ...

In Vernor Vinge's novel "A Deepness in the Sky" the space trading Queng Ho culture is obsessed with bio. They keep bonsais on spaceships and build parks in temps (space stations). "The park is the temp's soul".

Their integration of tech and nature, their appreciation for biotech as the highest form of advance technology, their obsession with building close-cycle, self sustaining ecosystems and their appreciation of the beauty of nature is one of the best attempts I have seen to imagine that...