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Bookworms of Lemmy, what are you currently reading? (lemmy.thesanewriter.com)

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And what's on your to read shelf?

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[-] what_is_a_name@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Just finished a book from the 1930s by a Czech author Karel Čapek called War with the Newts.

It’s sci-fi based on earth in 1930s but what I found the most interesting is

seeing an author from 1930s write and think on paper (casual racism and sexism, for example),
the echoes of the looming WWII
the retro futurism - I love seeing what people from the past imagined would happen with technology. They are often right, often cutely wrong.

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

John Brunner's 'Stand On Zanzibar' won the Hugo in 969 for its depiction of the early 21st Century. Amazing how much he got right.

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