“Aha! The Alien Planet Canada series, where the planet the characters are marooned on seems to be Manitoba. Bad bad world building.”

ibid.: About Genellan: Planetfall by Scott Gier:
2000s

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James Nicoll (1961) Canadian fiction reviewer

Almost-Classics: SF Concepts and Settings That Deserve Better Execution https://www.tor.com/2018/01/29/almost-classics-sf-concepts-and-settings-that-deserve-better-execution/ on Tor.com, January 29, 2018 <br class="br">2010s

“The uploads replicate and develop relationships. Most of them go very bad. You sometimes get an entire virtual planet of four billion people devoted to building prayer wheels in an attempt at a denial of service attack on God.”

Ken MacLeod (1954) Scottish science fiction writer

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“Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better one myself.”

Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey (1773–1850) British politician

Sydney Smith, in a letter to Jeffrey, claimed this as his own parody of him: "If you could be alarmed into the semblance of modesty, you would charm everybody; but remember my joke against you about the Moon and the Solar System;— 'Damn the solar system! bad light—planets too distant—pestered with comets—feeble contriviance;—could make a better with great ease.'" (The Review of English Studies New Series, vol. 44, pp. 430-432).
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