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From: Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com>
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Subject: Re: Five SF Books Set in the Future... of 2020
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 09:58:47 -0700
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In article <robertaw-639C30.10130425092024@news.individual.net>,
 Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:

> In article <vcc656$ipb$1@panix2.panix.com>,
>  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_.
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