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The dog repair guy very much reminded me of "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick. Funny how fiction sometimes becomes reality much quicker
by chkuendig 12y ago
The dog repair guy very much reminded me of "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick.
Funny how fiction sometimes becomes reality much quicker than expected :)
- Digit-Al 12y agoI had the exact same thought :-)
- learnstats2 12y agoDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep was originally set in 1992.
- drzaiusapelord 12y agoThere's this rule of thumb that a lot of future sci-fi tends to fall into the lifespan of the writer. So its usually 40-50 years out. I guess there's something morbid about writing about a time where you're dead or maybe many writers don't feel confident to extrapolate that far out.
- learnstats2 12y agoIt makes sense to date dystopian science fiction in the near future for the reader's benefit: the sense that 'this could yet happen to us' is a compelling part of the work. Space operas and utopian themes are abstracted by setting them further into the future. (Cite: The Algebraist, 4034AD; Star Trek TNG 2364AD; The Jetsons 2062AD; Futurama 3000AD) Partially relevant xkcd comic: http://xkcd.com/1491/large/ http://xkcd.com/1491/large/