Old Stories

[laura_seabrook]

It was too hot to do much, earlier today.

I happened to notice an old copy of Amazing Science Fiction (Jan 1985) sitting on the shelf and read a couple of stories in it. One was ""MS found in a Cruet Set" by Sharon N. Farber, and the other was "After the Guillotine" by Tanith Lee. I loved the first story, a wonderful pastiche about what Sherlock Holmes was like when doping up with a 7% solution. The second was about the idea of what happens after death. Very interesting and oddly calming.

Comments

[yeopenbooke.livejournal.com]

Funny that you should mention 1985!

I'm almost done with Greg Bear's "Eon" (1/10th or so left).

It was released that year...strange to see our (almost done with) current year of 2005 and how he thought it would turn out (Soviet Union extant!)

predictions

[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

Yes, a lot of folk got it wrong, didn't they (Judge Dredd, Star Trek, et al)? I think this is what Asimov used to call the "Elevator Factor", in that while lots of predictions can be uncannilly accurate, they tend to overlook very basic changes that affect everthing.