I thought when I was eleven that I'd be in space by the time I was the age I am now; at least, I thought it might not be unusual.
Poignant thought, that. When I was eleven or thereabouts, I remember reading a travelogue of a visit to a moon colony, complete with a flight on the commercial shuttle and spacesuit rentals for a tour of Tranquility. I'm thinking it was set no more than five years from now, which was probably wishful thinking even in 1986, but still...
Then again, according to Fifties SF we were supposed to be mining in the Asteroid Belt by now, using ships navigated with paper charts and slide rules.
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I thought when I was eleven that I'd be in space by the time I was the age I am now; at least, I thought it might not be unusual.
Poignant thought, that. When I was eleven or thereabouts, I remember reading a travelogue of a visit to a moon colony, complete with a flight on the commercial shuttle and spacesuit rentals for a tour of Tranquility. I'm thinking it was set no more than five years from now, which was probably wishful thinking even in 1986, but still...
Then again, according to Fifties SF we were supposed to be mining in the Asteroid Belt by now, using ships navigated with paper charts and slide rules.