The World of the Future: Transportation

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Ukraine Conflict: Sci Fi Cosplaying gone horribly wrong

People die as national policy is made by skiffy writers

Because My Tears Are Delicious to You 8: Tales of a Darkening World by Edgar Pangborn

This demonstrates a pitfall the preferred length of modern SF generally skirts. I began intended just to reread Edgar Pangborn's post-holocaust Bildungsroman Davy but because I was also planning to reread Canticle for Leibowitz, which covers centuries to Davy's decades I then began to ponder if it would be better to reread all the stories Pangborn wrote in that setting so I would be comparing similar spans of time or at least half a millennium to 1800 years. After all, both The Company of Glory and The Judgment of Eve are short and the collection Still I Persist in Wondering is under 300 pages. Of course, it all added up to something as long as The Past Through Tomorrow or Adventures in Time and Space. I am sure there is a lesson here somewhere and equally sure that I didn't learn it.
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You know what's on archive.org?

The old Winston juveniles.