defrog: (science!)
defrog ([personal profile] defrog) wrote2018-01-08 12:20 pm

WHAT 2018 LOOKED LIKE IN 1957

udhcmh:<br />“ lookyloo316:<br />“     Year 2018! (1957) by James Blish. Cover art by Richard M. Powers<br />”<br />In Blish’s Year 2018!, locked in an endless Cold War with the USSR, a security-obsessed United States is a McCarthyite near-dictatorship.<br />Mankind has...

[Via Old School Science Fiction]

[Infinity crawl]

Locked in an endless Cold War with the USSR, a security-obsessed United States is a McCarthyite near-dictatorship.

Mankind has reached the nearby planets and colonies and research stations dot the Solar System.

In these fringe outposts, forbidden science discovers a new technology that will enable whole cities to escape the repressive Earth and travel among the stars ...


Yup.

Living in the future,

This is dF