"They were conducted through a sliding vitryl [scroll down] door into the building." (p. 81)
A flying taxi has delivered Koskinen and Vivienne to the twenty third flange of a building where they then ascended a ramp to a terrace with brooklets, moss, roses, a plum tree and a view of gardens, a beach, the glittering sea and wheeling gulls. Inside the building, they enter a solarium with a twenty foot high fountain and lily beds on a flagged floor. They are about to meet someone important.
Aircars landing on flanges of tall buildings with vitryl doors are standard stuff that could appear in many fictional futures. Another way to write sf is to avoid all cliches and to start from scratch, assuming no expectations on the part of the readers - try to imagine a future society that has nothing in common with any previously imagined future. I can't. Sf has become a curious combination of shorthand cliches and genuine originality.
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Kaor, Paul!
And I wonder if is even POSSIBLE to write SF stories featuring HUMAN beings which has nothing in common with any previous stories speculations about the future. I argue it's more likely than not that future human societies will necessarily carry over many things from the past. Simple examples being furniture, food, clothing, etc.
Sean
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