And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Amusing conceit, but given the tech on display, I'd expect digitized DNA and some kind of assembler to make gestation tanks at the destination. No need for actual animals or their associated fodder.
Rob: almost certainly so. Plus the early SF writers didn't even come close to predicting all the real-world applications of computers. Can't really criticize them for that though.
Is that the one with the ostrich-like alien who learns the word "rock"? And the worm-like thing that makes bigger and bigger pyramidal shells around itself over millennia?
This is why you NEVER give up your guns.
ReplyDeleteAmusing conceit, but given the tech on display, I'd expect digitized DNA and some kind of assembler to make gestation tanks at the destination. No need for actual animals or their associated fodder.
ReplyDeleteThis cover could be from before DNA was "discovered" (1953)
DeleteRob: almost certainly so. Plus the early SF writers didn't even come close to predicting all the real-world applications of computers. Can't really criticize them for that though.
DeleteI look at my world today and see the SF I read way back when everywhere!
DeleteI see Heinlein's "Crazy Years":-(
DeleteMartian Odyssey is worth your time to track down and read. It's included in a couple of Weinbaum collections.
ReplyDeleteIs that the one with the ostrich-like alien who learns the word "rock"? And the worm-like thing that makes bigger and bigger pyramidal shells around itself over millennia?
DeleteIt's been 30 years since I read it but that DOES sound familiar, especially the alien taking a running jump and landing head first into the dirt.
DeleteBrewvet: I think we're thinking of the same story. I need to rummage through my library:-).
DeleteNo unicorns there either.
ReplyDeleteVintage SF anthology magazines, mm good and pulpy.
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