> Wow! Howard, you are amazing. I've recently been reading one of Bradbury's books, "The Silver Locusts", and loved it. But what is more amazing is the way he had rockets going to Mars and people colonising, but they still go down the road for butter and a soda, the morals and descriptions are still based in the 30s and 40s, it's just been transplanted into the future.
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> ding"I love the scene were, after years of settlement, a Human meets a Martian, and they can both see different things at the same time"dong


That's the thing about reading old science fiction: parts of it still haven't happened yet, and other parts are waaay out of date.

For example, in _The Sands of Mars_ (I think) by Arthur C Clarke, one of the main characters, an author, writes his stories on a typewriter, whilst on a space craft bound for Mars.

In Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, colapsing societies revert to coal and oil, from nuclear power. Of course, this ignores the fact that 20 000+ years, oil and coal are going to be forgotten. (I'm going to ignore the other blinding mistake - Galactic Standard. It shouldn't exist by the time of Seldon. 20 000 years is apparently enough for proto-indo-european to break up into everything from Greek to German, twice.)

And a lot, maybe even all, of the early SF authors simply ignored feminism, and books are full of male characters, with the women (if they are mentioned at all) at home doing housework.

Zo"I should stop analysing SF and start analysing my Lit. homework, shouldn't I?"e.