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Steve Lyle Jordan and DiapDealer bring up Lem as an author who stands the test of time. I wholeheartedly agree with them, and I think it's interesting to bring Lem up in this thread as he quit the field because he was disillusioned with the lack of progress in space travel since its early days. The 50's and 60's were times of great anticipation, when the imagination could go wild in predicting what might come. Unfortunately, space travel has since proven very risky, time consuming, unpleasant, and not economically friendly, and so has languished since the Moon landings. Perhaps our hunger for space-based SciFi has been dulled because of this, too. Maybe we'll only see a resurgence in the old exploration/colonization-heavy stories when/if technology improves and we start having something to look forward to again. Until then, we may have to keep going back to books written during that time of early wonder if we want to experience that mood.
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