“No city, no town, no community of more than one thousand people or two hundred buildings to the square mile shall be built or permitted to exist anywhere in the United States of America.” Constitution of the United States, Thirtieth Amendment. Thus begins Leigh Brackett’s The Long Tomorrow, included in the Library of America’s American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels: 1953-1956. The first thing to note about this novel is that it does cause one to wonder (once again) about the … [Read more...] about On Technological Stagnation
Measuring out my life with coffee spoons ...and books
