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SheilaT

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3. Interesting.
Fri Jan 8, 2016, 03:56 PM
Jan 2016

Since I haven't seen it, I wouldn't have known those things.

But it's often a problem in s-f, both on the screen and in print. As much as I love the Jack McDevitt books, it's quite true, as my son once pointed out, that it's all 20th/21st century people in them.

I often don't want to read books set in the distant future, because of that problem. Something that was truly far in the future would probably depict a world incomprehensible to most of us.

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Anyone liking "The Expanse" [View all] Richard D Jan 2016 OP
It looks as if I can actually watch it over the interwebs. SheilaT Jan 2016 #1
It's watchable DavidDvorkin Jan 2016 #2
Interesting. SheilaT Jan 2016 #3
It's a problem, all right DavidDvorkin Jan 2016 #4
I have just started reading SheilaT Jan 2016 #5
That sounds good DavidDvorkin Jan 2016 #6
Hah! I'll only be 118, so there! SheilaT Jan 2016 #7
I thought it was quite good. bluedigger Feb 2016 #8
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