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[Boreas]

Originally Posted by icenine

Is there not an old movie called Shape Of Things To Come from around the same time frame? Sometimes I try not to google everything...

You may be a bit too young for the pulp science fiction magazines...but I did read a few issues of Fantasy and Science Fiction....

I'm not too young for anything.

Yes, "The Shape Of Things To Come" is based on an H.G. Wells story. The movie was directed by Alexander Korda and starred Raymond Massey and a young Ralph Richardson. The message seems to be that industry and technology will save us from our bestial nature but the film ends pretty ambiguously.

I like the movie a lot, despite its proto-fascist technocratic elements. (I've got it around here somewhere.) One of these days I should read the Wells story to see what his original brief was.

John

[piece-itpete]

The book made me ill Mostly because Wells was at the cutting edge of intellesia at the time and he clearly believed it was the way to go, which I've caught from other upper crustish folks at the time. Seems they really believed some elements of totalitarianism was the future.

I believe this worldview is still prevalent with the ruling elite worldwide today.

I had subscriptions to Analog and Asimov

Pete

[d-ray657]

John, you're stuttering.

Regards,

D-Ray

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by d-ray657

John, you're stuttering.

Regards,

D-Ray

M-m-m-m-me?

John

[icenine]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

The book made me ill Mostly because Wells was at the cutting edge of intellesia at the time and he clearly believed it was the way to go, which I've caught from other upper crustish folks at the time. Seems they really believed some elements of totalitarianism was the future.

I believe this worldview is still prevalent with the ruling elite worldwide today.

I had subscriptions to Analog and Asimov

Pete

My 19th Century British history is rusty but Wells was a member of an intellectual group called the Fabian Society, a so************************t group. In the 20th Century he was a Labour Party candidate.

Pete I had a subscription to Asimov's magazine too....in fact I received the very first issue as a Christmas present from my dad one year. Analog was the modern day version of the old Astounding Stories magazine of John W. Campbell fame...he who wrote the Thing.

[piece-itpete]

Ah he was a so************************t.

For me it was mom who gave me the subscription, mom read scifi, dad read hard science. I don't remember the year but it was early. Heck on comic books, wish I'd kept them!

Pete