Extensive Google searches have not returned anything useful.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Sounds like an area John Ringo wrote about.
30 years ago?
Keith Laumer, Jerry Pournelle, possibly an episode in the BOLOS series?.
The solution is to pair post pubescent women with slightly older men and breed as rapidly as possible while building the infrastructure necessary for a society.
sounds like Rick Shelly, "Sylph" or "The Sylph", in Analog.
Do I get a piece of the action?
Eventually it got to the point where only the underclasses lived on the bottom of the Earth and they would get stuck doing all the dirty work and whatnot. Meanwhile, hundreds of stories off the ground, the "elite" would live in super-luxury and they would spend their entire lifetimes living in the upper reaches of the skyscrapers - all connected by magnetic trains that would take you from city to city on tracks that were thousands of feet off the ground.
Anyway, the storyline is that some of these privileged people decided to band together and "explore" the lower levels of their skyscraper city. You see, most of these people have never been beneath say the 500th floor level, and they saw themselves as adventurers with a goal to reach the actual ground level of Earth (which existed only in their imaginations). The ordeal these people went through to reach the ground was pretty incredible. They had to evade security patrols and roving gangs of thugs and as they descended to the lower levels, well, things got more and more dangerous for them.
Eventually they made it to the bottom (some of them were killed or were captured along the way) and they had to go through some really bizarre stuff to get to the outside world. But when they finally were able to put their feet on the actual earth and see flowers, trees and bugs for the first time, it was like they journeyed to a totally different planet.
Really cool story. I read it as a library book when I was about 12 and was never able to find that story again. Have no idea who wrote it or even what the title was.
If the right people like Lucasfilms were thinking they would do a mega series of either BOLOS or The Man/Kzin Wars.
What is “offstage”?
Hmm... How much older? Would 56 be too old? If not, I am available.
The solution is to pair post pubescent women with slightly older men and breed as rapidly as possible while building the infrastructure necessary for a society.
I wish I could comment, but the First lady reads my posts.
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I saw the movie but I can't remember the name. It's over in the porn aisle........
i don’t recall any specific story but H Beam Piper wrote numerous stories about settlement and the difficulties it might encounter. Could be in his body of work.
Sounds familiar, but I can’t remember. Sounds like Gordon R. Dickson or David Drake...
Sounds like Beyond the Stars by Ray Cummings.
The new planet was named Kalima, IIRC.