space travel;
nuclear war aftermath.
Poul Anderson covered both, of course.
James Blish's They Shall Have Stars was called Year 2018! in paperback and I read that version first. Now we live in a third kind of future:
the world wide web.
Try telling that guy reading Twilight World and Year 2018! in the 1960s that, in 2017 and 2018, he will not be visiting the Moon but discussing Anderson and Blish on a global computer network. He will not believe you.
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Kaor, Paul!
And I'm horrified and dismayed that we STILL don't have bases and colonies on the Moon and Mars! We should have achieved both BEFORE now. So, while I'm glad we have a computerized world wide communications system, I wish we also had done far far MORE in space!
In some ways we have advanced far beyond what SF writers and readers speculated about in the 1960's, but in other ways we have not.
Sean
Sean,
We know that the future will be different but not how it will differ.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
Too true! Including being different in ways we would not approve of or like.
Sean
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