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Or even Venus, as in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons (Text here: https://www.gutenberg.org/
by TomSwirly 3y ago
Or even Venus, as in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons
(Text here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51233/51233-h/51233-h.htm https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51233/51233-h/51233-h.htm)
Both involved Cyril Kornbluth, what a great talent, taken far too soon.
Interestingly, Pohl wrote a sequel to The Space Merchants decades later, and I picked it up, fully expecting it to be terrible, and it was brilliant, and made me cry at the end.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Merchants%27_War_(Pohl_novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Merchants%27_War_(Pohl_nov...
- 082349872349872 3y agoLuckily enough, population genetics[0] doesn't follow the model[1] of the year 7-B-936 so much as it does https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean . [0] as many would-be racing breeders have discovered, it's easy to breed the best to the best, but the number of trials incurred while hoping for the best takes deep pockets. [1] or were the story's names a nod to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F1_hybrid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F1_hybrid -isation?