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.
The one thing sci fi has always gotten wrong, both in the past and now, is the issue of power. All the fancy toys and gadgets, the robots, the autonomous machinery all have a small long lasting source of power to keep them working. We don't have that type of power and nothing like such a power source is anywhere on the horizon.
Street sweeping device programmed to eliminate menacing tennis-playing robots endangering the populace with their dangerous backswing.
ReplyDeleteThe Trans-Human :/
ReplyDeleteLooks like they got that one right…
DeleteLots of humanoids in the triggered dimension as we speak.
DeleteIn which Harry Bates (who?) gets billed ahead of Murray Leinster, Eric Frank Russell AND James H. Schmitz …
ReplyDeleteBates's short story 'Farewell to the Master' was the basis for the movie
DeleteThe Day the Earth Stood Still'.
For a good read, look for the thrilling whodunit by Ray Bradbury.
ReplyDeleteSet in Santa Monica, the protagonist is a Sam Spade type.
Yes, really. Bradbury wrote a detective story.
The one thing sci fi has always gotten wrong, both in the past and now, is the issue of power. All the fancy toys and gadgets, the robots, the autonomous machinery all have a small long lasting source of power to keep them working. We don't have that type of power and nothing like such a power source is anywhere on the horizon.
ReplyDeleteThe Triggered Dimension AND the TRANS to the Bitter End with the Vampyrates.
ReplyDeleteNow that's prediction.