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>>Glad to hear he still around. I hope his future books are better then his "3001" ( and I mean 3001, not 2001).
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>Yeah, that was God-awful wasn't it! And he got the technology wrong - people talking to each other via
>wall-mounted, purpose built view screens, rather than hand-held mini phones that can take pictures, or GP computers, et al, like we've already got

The book read like "The future according to Authur". Besides, it started off unbelievable: Frank Poole frozen in space for a thousand years. Ya, sure!