Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Robert Woodward Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Five SF Books Set in the Future... of 2020 Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 09:58:47 -0700 Organization: home user Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net Mh0i8Jy9frzI9MbfWHgj/g85upj1c0egTNo9Z1Wrd9XPpHSRBn X-Orig-Path: robertaw Cancel-Lock: sha1:22PaQg1Kc1v7PFfTf1s0e/aWPx4= sha256:pdGVm5E9dkBGFc4TTxz8LUXo3ti+yunWf6fH3DkkfNM= User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.2 (Intel Mac OS X) Bytes: 2116 In article , Robert Woodward wrote: > In article , > jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote: > > > Five SF Books Set in the Future… of 2020 > > > > How did science fiction imagine the world of the 2020s? Let's > > look at some of the more entertaining predictions and speculations... > > > > https://reactormag.com/five-sf-books-set-in-the-future-of-2020/ > > This reply is a bit late, but I was just looking at my database of books > bought and read and a comment I made decades ago for one book caught my > attention. I give you _Touch the Stars: Emergence_ by John Dalmas and > Carl Martin (published by Tor in 1983). The chapter heads include dates, > chapter 1 being set on September 16, 2024. I don't remember much about > it (I think it could be called a gadget story), but there appears to be > a E-book edition available. Oh, the comment: "King Charles III makes a > brief appearance". However, when I checked that e-book edition; I discovered that the text had been revised and expanded. -- "We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement." Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_. ‹----------------------------------------------------- Robert Woodward robertaw@drizzle.com