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DrNefario
Posted 2017-08-29 11:01 AM (#16226 - in reply to #13118)
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Location: UK		And that's the 80s finished, with the slightly disappointing Orbital Decay by Allen Steele. The future 2016, as seen from 1989, is exactly the same as 1989 in every way except that we've built a few more things in space. I mean, sure, every SF novel is really about its own time, but you at least pretend to predict a few trends, surely? Still using audio cassettes and VHS tapes. To listen to the same music and watch the same TV. Still a Soviet Union and an East Germany.

Anyway, onwards to the 90s. It looks like I might even be able to finish my 50-year mission next year sometime.

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