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Originally Posted by Hitch
And it happens constantly today. If you're reading a novel set in, say, 1810, the characters will look/speak/act as though they are in 2022. It's...frustrating. I don't mind the author "softening" what would be infuriating attitudes, for the reading audience, a bit or rather, tamping them down, but pretending that they don't exist? Nyah.
Hitch
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On the converse, reading older sci-fi novels leads to another amusement.
I recently read Asimov's Foundation... supposedly takes 10,000 years in the future where humans have colonized the entire galaxy, and yet everyone is still smoking cigars and using microfilms and the sheer lack of females. Is this 10,000 years into the future or 1950s America?