Re: QX

I guess its strange that Science fiction is so easy to date
(particularly as 
a result of the language), it is always so tricky to get things to sound

futuristic 50 years down the line.

Richard

>E. E. (Doc) Smith was born in 1890 and  that for him it wasn't language

>evolving
>but language original. I suspect that he may have been into amature
radio 
>and just as nobody
>today would question the use of  "browser" or "html" in a story so in
his 
>day amature radio
>terms would be up-to-date.The first book in the lensman series 
>(Triplanetary) shows a
>copyright of 1948 (I checked my copy) which is actually pre computer
(not 
>counting the
>clasified ones).
>
>Smith wasn't that bad but he continuously used the term "hot jets" in
his 
>Lensman series which
>drove me up the walls till I noted the copyright date and figured that
the 
>"hot jets"  was the new and
>improved of his day.
>
>Scott
>
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