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Jul. 21st, 2013

Friday July 19, 2013 Reread: Melissa Scott, Conceiving the Heavens: creating the science fiction novel. Heinemann (Reed Elsevier), 1997.

There are reminders of how much the world can change in less than twenty years. One example given of future possibilities is electronic currency. Today, BitCoin is old news. (And generated in a way Scott didn't predict. I don't think anyone else predicted it, either.)

Then there are references to such things as library card catalogs.

This time through, I noticed an unintended story idea in the glossary: "A relatively new wrinkle is the collaboration between two writers, one living and one dead." Suppose the dead writer is still active, or again active....

Highly recommended.

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