![]() ![]() Except occasional ones where I've merged a later quote with a similar earlier one. Quotes.Quotes are generally in order they appear in the story. I collect some quotes in the section below that highlight the elements I found interesting in the story. And one with wealth that "reaches the almost unimaginable figure of $10,000,000,000"! It's a diary describing details of the day of one Fritz Napoleon Smith, "editor of the Earth Chronicle" - an influential futuristic newspaper. Story summary.To tell us how this future looks like, story selects a random date - "September 25th of this present year 2889". The story also includes several themes now popular in science fiction.įull text of the story is available online. Though often in ways different from they way author thought. ![]() The story is set a 1000 years after its publication date but many of its predictions are already common place just a little over 100 years since its publication. It's what is sometimes called "future history" - without much attention to detail of each specific item of technology in this magical future, & yet prophetic.Īnd it's a very amusing story. A couple of pages into it, & my reaction was - why did Hartwell classify it as hard sf? I still won't classify it as such. ![]()
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