Brain Wave (1953) by Poul Anderson begins in then contemporary society but a cosmic event increases global intelligence so it becomes sf. The attached cover image conveys this transition.
In The Associate (2009) by John Grisham, the Pentagon plans hypersonic jet bombers that will skip above the stratosphere and will last until 2060 so they are looking forward into an sfnal future.
All good stuff and very different. Dig them all.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
I think some of Anderson's Middle and Late works have far surpassed BRAIN WAVE (first pub. in 1954). And BRAIN WAVE also interests me in having been pub. so long ago, in the early 1950's, that it's an interesting period piece, giving us glimpses of what life was like then.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
A bit like the Yamamura novels.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
Exactly! They too have become period pieces.
Ad astra! Sean
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