[FWD] Crawford Kilian (crawford_killian@mindlink.bc.ca): Re: Implausible

[David Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>]

Date: Mon, 1 Aug 1994 00:20:46 -0400
From: Christopher Davis <ckd@loiosh.kei.com>


We are all time travelers.  We travel at the rate of 1 year per year.
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From: crawford_killian@mindlink.bc.ca (Crawford Kilian)
Subject: Re: Implausible Near-Futures (was: Virtual Light)
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 94 21:43:13 -0700 (PDT)
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Imagine it's 1980 and I'm going to pitch my editor at Del Rey Books about a
novel set in the mid-1990s.


I tell him my SF world has no Soviet Union; it fell apart without a major
war. China is a communist state with a capitalist economy. The US is the
world's biggest debtor nation. Washington DC is the murder capital of
America. Germany has become a united nation while Yugoslavia has broken
into little bits. Lech Valesa has become the widely ridiculed president of
a free Poland. The US has recently fought a high-tech war in Iraq that left
its dictator in place and restored a feudal aristocracy to power in Kuwait.


Guess what kind of reaction my editor would have given me.




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Crawford Kilian   Communications Department   Capilano College
North Vancouver BC Canada V7J 3H5
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