There's an entire sub-genre of science fiction along these lines now. Sterling and a few others really crank them out. Call it "Start from (Near-) Scratch Sci-fi". There's inevitably some smart character or two who immediately start thinking long-term and argue that the rest of the characters need to use what little tech they have as the…
There's an entire sub-genre of science fiction along these lines now. Sterling and a few others really crank them out. Call it "Start from (Near-) Scratch Sci-fi". There's inevitably some smart character or two who immediately start thinking long-term and argue that the rest of the characters need to use what little tech they have as the seed-corn for starting over. The more ambitious books try to bootstrap the protagonists from leftover tech and rocks to space flight in a few years.
There's an entire sub-genre of science fiction along these lines now. Sterling and a few others really crank them out. Call it "Start from (Near-) Scratch Sci-fi". There's inevitably some smart character or two who immediately start thinking long-term and argue that the rest of the characters need to use what little tech they have as the seed-corn for starting over. The more ambitious books try to bootstrap the protagonists from leftover tech and rocks to space flight in a few years.