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[hwhall at compuserve.com]

>Of course, a lot of science fiction was just standard plots from other 
>genre transposed to a different setting. 

Yeah, even Robert A. Heinlein, a MAJOR sci-fi writer, said that he really just stole old ideas and "filed off the serial numbers."

 
Wayne
WB4OGM


-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
To: greenkeys <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Mon, Jun 22, 2015 12:03 pm
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Ebay Listing


      I know.  I read a lot of this in my teens.  Its surprising what they missed but, of course, they were writers and not inventors.   The general attitude about computers is interesting:  they were envisioned as very large machines that would take over the world.  Well, I suppose they have in a way  but not the way the writers of these stories thought they would.   Not much thought that small computers would empower individuals rather than enslave them.  Someone did give me a couple of examples of the contrary but I don't remember them.   Of course, a lot of science fiction was just standard plots from other genre transposed to a different setting.  Not so much difference between a tramp sailing ship and a tramp space ship other than visiting people built like jelly beans.  I think the main difference between science fiction and science phantasy is that the former assumed that the laws of physics would stay reasonably fixed to current understanding while the latter didn't care.  I have long been fascinated by writers and writing.   I am a fair expository writer but have never been able to do creative writing that was anything but drivel.  I would LOVE to be able to write good detective stories.    
  
  
On 6/22/2015 10:38 AM,   hwhall at compuserve.com wrote:  
  
  
      
     If you read old sci-fi from before the 1970s it is surprising what they imagined, too, like interplanetary & even intersteller spacecraft navigated using published books of tables and slide rules.    
    
    
     
     Wayne
 WB4OGM
     
    
     
    
    
-----Original Message-----    
 From: Richard Knoppow     <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>    
 To: greenkeys     <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>    
 Sent: Mon, Jun 22, 2015 11:31 am    
 Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Ebay Listing    
     
     
      
I love this.   I don't have any quotes but if you ever look over 
the archive
of popular technical magazines of the 1930s, especially the 
Hugo Gernsback
ones, they have a section predicting the world in 25 or 
fifty years.   Its
amazing what people thought they would want.



     
    
    
   
   
   
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