• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    and before, really. At least, after ww2, scifi was all about space ships and colonies on the moon (and venus. Until they realized how… extremely inhospitable Venus is.)

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        11 months ago

        Lol. Yeah. No worries.

        Actually- and this applies to Asimov too- it’s amazing where people thought we’d be by now.

        Or like, things that changed with the times- Asimov liked to talk about how awesome and good nuclear radiation was. (“Bathed in the warm glow of radiation….”)

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      11 months ago

      I was thinking about that as I wrote it but wanted a famous name that everyone would recognize who also wrote pretty long ago.