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jwharris28
Posted 2015-01-18 2:02 PM (#9320 - in reply to #9162)
Subject: Re: The Definitive 1950s Reading Challenge		Quote Reply



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I wrote up my summary of our discussion about why science fiction books go stale.

http://auxiliarymemory.com/2015/01/18/when-does-science-fiction-go-...

I copped out and didn't try to get into very specific things. Like mutants. In the 1950s and 1960s we loved stories with radiation mutants. But that idea has fallen out of favor. There's probably a whole list of such concepts. PSI stories were big in the 1950s, but we seldom read about people with telepathy today. I'm listening to City at the World's End by Edmund Hamilton, about a small town sent into the far future by a A-Bomb blast. Heinlein did something similar with Farnham's Freehold. But we don't read more about atomic bombs doing magical things any more.

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