Wells's Time Traveler:
"...thought but cheerlessly of the Advancement of Mankind, and saw in the growing pile of civilization only a foolish heaping that must inevitably fall back upon and destroy its makers in the end."
-HG Wells, The Time Machine (London, 1973), EPILOGUE, p. 101.
In Heinlein's "The Year of the Jackpot," everything that can go wrong does, culminating in the Sun exploding and chopping off the concluding sentence.
Poul Anderson wrote In Memoriam.
Anderson's Ythrians see the shadow of God the Hunter across the future.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
And the stunning incompetence and bungling of "Josip" and his Democrats gives all too ample grounds for pessimism!
Ad astra! Sean
Post a Comment