The SF Book of the Days

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The SF Book

of Days

Don Sakers

THE SF BOOK OF DAYS

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

permission is piracy, and deprives authors of income.

Authorized electronic texts of this book are available at

www.scatteredworlds.com

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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