I read Kildozer a very very very long time ago, must have been in the late 50's. More an S. King technohorror piece than S/F. I even thought so at the time. (Sturgeon's Law, yup, prety much right on.)
But, Speculative fiction, as in the current definition of Science Fiction, is just that, Speculative.
A trip into What If, a single narrow view into what may be.
I wonder what J Verne would think of the world we live in today. Hell, I look around at times and remember that nearly none of the current popular technologies were even forseen when I was a pup. Personal Comuters, Cel Phones, Internet, 257 channels of TV (And still nothing on ;8~> ), the entire digital thingie.
Oh yeah, some S/F writers wandered around it, but not many. Most mainstream researchers and sceintist derided those writers who did.
Of course, far from the first time "Established and Respected Scientific Authority" got it way wrong either.......................
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- War in the Heavens.
- re: War in the Heavens.
- How do they afford all these battleships - isn't that kindof expensive? (n/t)
- Comparative costs
- So you've read SF by Alastair Reynolds? He writes about the possibility of xenocidal interstellar machines.
- Office of Home World Security
- Which begs the question of what exactly they are fighting over to make it worthwhile? (n/t)
- Comparative costs
- Not sure I agree with this guy