Old Books

[stoutfellow]

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.