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"Science fiction and science have always danced around each other. Science fiction is the subconscious of science."
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![]() I think it's important to understand the era in which this story was written. In 1925, Henry Ford was making a new Model T every twenty-seven seconds, and by the time of this story (1939), there were millions of second-hand cars around for every young man with a tool kit, which was most of them.
Read more about this exciting era in the article for rocket-polo from Ra for the Rajah (1938) by John Victor Petersen.
Compare to the more genteel sport of solar sailing in this article on the solar yacht from Sunjammer (1963) by Arthur C. Clarke. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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