![]() 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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