4 November 2009

Rubbing sticks together to make math on Mars.

I think Robert Heinlein's Red Planet was the first "grown up" science fiction book I read, in 1982. It was published in 1949, but seemed modern enough to my eleven-year-old self. (With one notable exception, which prompts this post.)
Wikipedia says: "The first Golden Age of Science Fiction -- often recognized as the period from [...]

by Scott Carpenter on 4 November 2009 at 9:05 pm
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