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Childhood's End and Futurist Beginnings

This is a bizarre story and even more bizarre, because it is familiar. Further, the author in 1953 predicts oral contraceptives, hints at DNA typing, and much before that - predicted satellite communications. A main character looks like a couple of people we know as well...

12 comments    golden age arthur c. clarke
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Golden Treasures of Futurist Literature for Teens

Isaac Asimov wrote my college astronomy text book. A noted chemist, he produced a useful, entertaining astronomy book and a large number of futurist novels as well. They are all fun..

8 comments    family education children
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