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Science Fiction

Lithos

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2. Great writer and theorist

Reply to ThoughtCriminal (Original post)

Thu Mar 21, 2024, 10:45 PM

Mar 2024

He made some brilliant contributions to popularizing technology. Still, he was an old white man and stuck in time - especially when recognizing that people of diversity could and were writing top-notch Science Fiction. To his credit, he ultimately focused on the craft first and not the people.

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