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Robert Heinlein had a story The Year Of the Jackpot, about exactly this. Ends with the Sun going nova.
by JJMcJ 7y ago
Robert Heinlein had a story The Year Of the Jackpot, about exactly this.
Ends with the Sun going nova.
- gumby 7y agoIt was the first science fiction story I ever read, and I was 11. I still remember the opening line. "At first Potiphar Breen did not notice the girl who was undressing."
- addHocker 7y ago"There's something wrong with the sunset" "No, with the Sun."
- gerikson 7y agoI wonder if that's where Gibson got the term "the Jackpot" for the slow-motion catastrophe that overtakes future Earth in The Peripheral.