Reading Wednesday

[masqthephlsphr]

Been meaning to do this meme for a while.

What I just got done reading: I've been searching for books to fill my "realistic solar system exploration" story kink, and there aren't a lot of them. I read James SA Corey's Expanse series, of course, and Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars series. Alas, searching book lists for novels featuring specifically

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[cactuswatcher]

Amusingly, though, more re-con: Soviet Russia gets written right out of Earth's 21st century, as if Clarke had never featured it in his earlier books.

Well, I know the feeling. My 1980s novel of the distant future had cordless tablets replacing books and combination wristwatch-communication devices. They wouldn't exactly seem like bold predictions for the future these days.

[masqthephlsphr]

Even Star Trek (90's vintage) is dated that way.