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(Created page with "For '''a sizeable period''' which overlapped with the 511th century, Earth existed in a "thoroughly frozen" state. The planet was no longer the centre of human culture, with almost all of Earth's history and culture forgotten and the planet being known as "Old Old Earth" due to the presence of New Earths. This frozen state was caused by "a couple of nuclear winters and a large comet". At some point, explorers on Old Old Earth discovered a natural...") |
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* This period of [[Earth]] history is the setting of the 1967 novel ''The Ice Schooner'', part of the [[Michael Moorcock Multiverse]]. | * This period of [[Earth]] history is the setting of the 1967 novel ''The Ice Schooner'', part of the [[Michael Moorcock Multiverse]]. | ||
** In ''The Ice Schooner'', only a single [[nuclear winter]] is mentioned. The second nuclear winter mentioned in ''The Coming of the Terraphiles'' may be the one depicted in the 1984 ''[[Jerry Cornelius]]'' story ''The Alchemist's Question''. | ** In ''The Ice Schooner'', only a single [[nuclear winter]] is mentioned. The second nuclear winter mentioned in ''The Coming of the Terraphiles'' may be the one depicted in the 1984 ''[[Jerry Cornelius]]'' story ''The Alchemist's Question''. | ||
** ''The Ice Schooner'' refers to this era as the "new Ice Age". [[Brian Hayles]]' {{Cs|Doctor Who and the Ice Warriors (novelisation)}}, a novelisation of his TV story {{cs|The Ice Warriors (TV story)}}, also refers to that story's [[Second Ice Age]] as the "New Ice Age". The original ''Ice Warriors'' TV story was broadcast a year after ''The Ice Schooner'' was serialized in ''New Worlds'' magazine, meaning that it was possible Hayles was inspired by the setting of ''The Ice Schooner''. | |||
[[Category:Earth history]] | [[Category:Earth history]] | ||
