Reading John Wyndham's Retro Hugo nominated story, "The Sleepers of Mars", I was startled to see that his cosmonauts knew of only seven Soviet Republics (in a story published in 1938 and set in 1981). When the USSR broke up in 1991, there were fifteen of them. What, I wondered, had Wyndham done with the other eight?
Four were easy enough. In 1938,
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