The SF Book of the Days
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The SF Book
of Days
Don Sakers
THE SF BOOK OF DAYS
copyright © 2004, Don Sakers
All rights reserved
Published by
Speed-of-C Productions
PO Box 265
Linthicum, MD 21090-0265
ISBN: 0-9716147-6-8
January 2004
Scanning and distributing books on the Internet without
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DEDICATED TO:
Friday, August 30, 1974
Thursday, October 3, 1974
Saturday, August 30, 1980
and most of all, to
Friday, April 9, 1982
INTRODUCTION:
The Days of Futures Passed
This idea for this book came in the year HAL wasn’t born,
Skynet didn’t attempt to destroy the human race, and worst of
all, the
Jupiter II
wasn’t launched. All things considered, the
real world’s version of the year 1997 was a pale imitation of
the momentous year chronicled by many science fiction
stories, books, and media.
Of course, science fiction has taken it on the chin from
reality before. The atom bomb was first used in war on
August 6, 1945 —
not
the 1960’s, as H.G. Wells had told us.
On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin in
Vostok I
— and
not
Richard Seaton in
The Skylark of Space
— became the first
man in space. Armstrong and Aldrin made the first footprints
on the Moon on July 21, 1969 —
not
Cavor and Bedford, nor
even Leslie LeCroix. The closest that the world of 1984 came
to universal totalitarianism was Apple Computer’s Superbowl
commercial. In 1990, the United States and Russia fought a
long-awaited war in the Persian Gulf — but incredibly, almost
insultingly, they were on the
same
side.
This process accelerated as the 1990’s wore on. One by one,
the great days and years of science fiction have fallen like
wheat before a thresher. World Wars III and IV —
gone
. Luna
City, Marsport, Venus Equilateral —
gone
. The Eugenics Wars
and the great ecological disasters of the mid-90’s —
gone
.
Computer overlords, intelligent apes, conversations with
dolphins —
gone
. A dozen alien invasions, visitations, and
First Contacts —
gone
. Space hotels, colonies on Mars and
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