> I sometimes think that what did me in was reading all that Science
> Fiction; coming to assume a universe in which, onwards, intelligence
> keeps growing (not much to support that vision around us right now,
> viz. Stephen's political note)...
That was very much American SF, Doug -- Brit SF has always been a bit more
pessimistic (think of say Thomas Disch or Ballard).
Or Wells -- dem dam' Morlochs.
Robin
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