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"Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not."
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Early instance of the "food tablet" idea.
Compare to the somewhat tastier food bricks from the 1971 novel Ringworld by Larry Niven.
Compare to the compact food pastilles from The Senator's Daughter (1879) by Edward Page Mitchell, nutritious pellets from Looking Forward: A Dream of the United States of the Americas in 1999 (1899) by Arthur Bird, concentro from Armageddon: 2419 A.D. (1928) by Philip Frances Nowlan, wine pellets from Redmask of the Outlands (1934) by Nat Schachner and dainties from Prelude to Foundation (1988) by Isaac Asimov. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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