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Just finished a book from the 1930s by a Czech author Karel Čapek called War with the Newts.
It’s sci-fi based on earth in 1930s but what I found the most interesting is
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seeing an author from 1930s write and think on paper (casual racism and sexism, for example),
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the echoes of the looming WWII
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the retro futurism - I love seeing what people from the past imagined would happen with technology. They are often right, often cutely wrong.
10 0 ReplyJohn Brunner's 'Stand On Zanzibar' won the Hugo in 969 for its depiction of the early 21st Century. Amazing how much he got right.
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