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Originally Posted by gmw
One of the reasons for starting to look for more recent SciFi was sitting down to some older stuff and finding myself amused and saddened by various aspects that relate to their age. A common (sad) one is there was a time when it was confidently believed we would be in space and colonising the moon and Mars long before now. (It seems that anyone thinking otherwise just wasn't being realistic.) As I understand it, the reasons why this hasn't happened are mostly societal - social sciences being among the sciences sadly missing from the old SciFi (except, occasionally, as related to aliens). I'm curious to read some recent stuff as a direct contrast and comparison to that - the view then vs the view now.
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Then I would recommend Stephen Baxter's NASA books, such as Voyage, which is an alternate history of the space age where a manned mission to Mars is launched after Apollo.