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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
You have to take science fiction for what it is, an extrapolation of a time to a possible future.
TMC was a cry for human emotion in the world of 1950's science fiction.
The best way to enjoy it is not to nitpick the projections, but take them as an alternate universe. Read each one as a slice-of-life vignette, looking at some aspect of the humanity, in conflict with its own technological creations.
And enjoy the artistry of the words and images created by them. . .
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Excellent points! I would add that the nature of the world so created has its own imaginative power. Venus, for instance, is certainly not the watery, jungle world that so many SF writers of the fifties thought it was but that does not diminish the vision these writers created.