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Old 07-16-2012, 08:12 PM   #69
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I reread I, Robot shortly before the Will Smith movie came out, and was surprised by how outdated the background and its concepts were.

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Like Martian canals and the jungles of Venus. Maybe it's just me.
The funny thing is, though, having grown up reading these "quaint" science fiction stories, anything that doesn't have those anachronisms just doesn't "feel right" to me... like it's not "real sci-fi". :-)
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