Re: Oldest SF not necessarily most dated?

"Mike stone" <mwstone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>
> <ilya2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>> While all SF from 30's, 40's and 50's is dated in obvious ways,
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> Though it may be more dated at some times than others.
>
> Wyndham's _Day of the Triffids_ was written in 1951, but the triffids
> themselves - a genertically modified plant bred to produce biofuels - 
> are
> probably more credible now than they were say 20 years ago.


And as I pointed out in another thread not too long ago, Hal Clement's 
_Needle_ isn't terribly dated. It also has biofuels, albeit as a 
background and not especially germane to the plot. As far as I can 
remember, the only thing dating the book is that the kid (whose name I 
can't remember) has a typewriter in his dorm room instead of a PC. But 
that only means that it was probably before the 90s. It was written in 
the 40s.

-- 
Dan Tilque