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When #reading older works of #ScienceFiction, I find it helpful to bear in mind that they are often products of their times, and that ideas which we find distasteful now may have been commonly acceptable then, and ideas which seem commonplace to us now may have been considered wildly radical then.

Then there is the fact that many famous works have been grossly misinterpreted to the point where the popular understanding of them is complete nonsense (cf: Starship Troopers). #books