Re: Oldest SF not necessarily most dated?

Gene wrote:

> David Cowie <me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in news:68rpcsF2u97b6U1
> @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > On Mon, 12 May 2008 13:48:47 -0700, ilya2 wrote:
> > 
> >> And if you think that streches the belief, cocaine is not 
> only legal,
> >> but is allowed on board.
> > 
> > In one of the other books in the series, Titan ex****ts 
> cocaine to Earth. 
> 
> A little over the top, to be sure. But I sometimes feel I've 
> fallen into an unlikely sfnal future, starting with the 80's. 
> President Ronald Reagan? Who's his secretary of state-Jerry 
> Lewis? Austrian bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor 
> of California-how likely is that, even for California? 

Just barely possible -- but someone whose English is German-tinged
being governor at a time when California has two Jewish Senators?  Both
female?

> And the 
> whole thing where Islamism replaces Communism as the big 
> bugaboo is just weird.



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