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[-] cstross@wandering.shop 14 points 4 months ago
[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 15 points 4 months ago

N = 2 (this and judge dredd) right now, but was there a rise in fiction in the 70's/80's where they did the 'people live their whole lives in a skyscraper and didn't come out' thing? Is there some underlying societal fear I'm not super aware of? Or am I making too much of two examples?

[-] grumpybozo@toad.social 10 points 4 months ago

@Soyweiser It was a bigger theme earlier: 50s/60s. Asimov, Bradbury, and I think Heinlein all used it.

[-] adrienne@awful.systems 3 points 3 months ago

Also James Blish, in the of-their-time-but-still-worth-reading Cities in Flight series.

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