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He was given a [[UsefulNotes/DamonKnightMemorialGrandMasterAward SFWA Grand Master Award]] in 2000.

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He was given a [[UsefulNotes/DamonKnightMemorialGrandMasterAward [[MediaNotes/DamonKnightMemorialGrandMasterAward SFWA Grand Master Award]] in 2000.

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* ''Hothouse'' (1962)



* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The narrator in the short story ''I.I.I.''
* DeathWorld: ''Hothouse'' (AKA ''The Lord Afternoon of Earth'') involves a distant future, where Earth has become tidally locked with the Sun (which has also expanded), so that one side constantly faces the scorching heat, while the other remains in perpetual darkness. The sun-facing side has become the titular hothouse, with giant plants constantly vying for supremacy and most of the animal kingdom dying off. Plants are now extremely dangerous to each other and the remaining animals (humans included). Humanity is facing extinction. Humans are now a fifth of the size they are today and live on the giant trees. They constantly have to be wary of the {{Man Eating Plant}}s, and the four remaining species of insects, which have become BigCreepyCrawlies. There are also Flymen, who periodically come and try to take human babies. It's revealed that they are [[spoiler:humans mutated by cosmic radiation and rendered sterile; that's why they capture babies]]. Not much is known about the Nightside, except that it is very cold and that there is a race of baboon-descended people called Sharp-furs living there. Oh, and [[spoiler:Earth is destroyed by giant solar flares at the end with life beaming itself to faraway stars]].

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* %%* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The narrator in the short story ''I.I.I.''
* DeathWorld: ''Hothouse'' (AKA ''The Lord Afternoon of Earth'') involves a distant future, where Earth has become tidally locked with the Sun (which has also expanded), so that one side constantly faces the scorching heat, while the other remains in perpetual darkness. The sun-facing side has become the titular hothouse, with giant plants constantly vying for supremacy and most of the animal kingdom dying off. Plants are now extremely dangerous to each other and the remaining animals (humans included). Humanity is facing extinction. Humans are now a fifth of the size they are today and live on the giant trees. They constantly have to be wary of the {{Man Eating Plant}}s, and the four remaining species of insects, which have become BigCreepyCrawlies. There are also Flymen, who periodically come and try to take human babies. It's revealed that they are [[spoiler:humans mutated by cosmic radiation and rendered sterile; that's why they capture babies]]. Not much is known about the Nightside, except that it is very cold and that there is a race of baboon-descended people called Sharp-furs living there. Oh, and [[spoiler:Earth is destroyed by giant solar flares at the end with life beaming itself to faraway stars]].
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* HostileTerraforming: ''The Saliva Tree''.

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** In the US the publisher ruined the spoiler by naming the book ''[[SpoilerTitle Starship]]''.

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** In the US the publisher ruined the spoiler spoiled it by naming the book ''[[SpoilerTitle Starship]]''.



* PopulationControl: In "Super-Toy Last All Summer Long", families are restricted from having more than one child.

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* PopulationControl: In "Super-Toy "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long", families are restricted from having more than one child.

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