Forgotten Greats of Science Fiction
Older sci-fi can be great until it starts being laughably anachronistic. I&#x27;m re-reading the Foundation series and there are some howlers. From a hologram continually insisting that his viewers can go ahead a smoke cigarettes (as he won&#x27;t mind), to a breathless description of what is just an automatic train ticket kiosk, to a machine that &#x27;types&#x27; by translating voice into neatly hand-written words on a page (where if you misspoke, you need to start from scratch again like a typewriter.)<p>I think it&#x27;s hard for many modern readers to digest science fiction that was written before the transistor was invented. Some things just seem ridiculous.