Old Books

Aug. 16th, 2008 05:16 pm
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I bought a number of used books at Denvention, and in reading them I keep running into the unexpected. Two examples:
  • Northwest Smith includes a couple of references to a song entitled "The Green Hills of Earth". The stories were written in the 1930s.

  • Early on in The Lathe of Heaven, Dr. Haber muses on the fact that snowcaps have disappeared from the great mountains, even Everest and Erebus, as a result of the Greenhouse Effect. (Le Guin capitalizes the words.) The Lathe of Heaven was published in 1971.

Just... unexpected.

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