Bad Timing
Feb. 4th, 2010 05:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stoutfellowI don't know why this sort of thing amuses me, but it does.
I'm currently rereading Greg Bear's Forge of God, and just noticed something. As the news of the alien incursion begins to leak, there is talk of a hearing in the U.S. Senate. One government official makes an annoyed reference to having to explain things to Sen. Proxmire. (Proxmire was notorious for denouncing governmental projects that, in his judgement, were wastes of money; this is not, itself, a bad thing, except that Proxmire's judgement was untempered by any understanding of science.)
The book was written in 1987, and the story set in 1996. Proxmire retired from the Senate in 1988.
Bad timing, Mr. Bear.
I'm currently rereading Greg Bear's Forge of God, and just noticed something. As the news of the alien incursion begins to leak, there is talk of a hearing in the U.S. Senate. One government official makes an annoyed reference to having to explain things to Sen. Proxmire. (Proxmire was notorious for denouncing governmental projects that, in his judgement, were wastes of money; this is not, itself, a bad thing, except that Proxmire's judgement was untempered by any understanding of science.)
The book was written in 1987, and the story set in 1996. Proxmire retired from the Senate in 1988.
Bad timing, Mr. Bear.
