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Originally Posted by twowheels
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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Yep. I think it's quite unrealistic to expect older stories to have current science in them, but if the story stands on it's own it shouldn't matter. Take ERB's Mars stories for example.