Jay Sandover
Several years ago, I read the history book Selling the True Time: Nineteenth-Century Timekeeping in America by Ian Bartky. I'd stumbled upon it in my local library. The story of trying to get the entire US population using a universal time (instead of using several, local times) made me think about projecting the story into a speculative future where times on Earth and other planets might not be universal. Thinking about this opened an entire fictional world in my mind.
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I've been studying the older science fiction and it makes me sad when the authors pin a year on their fictional space accomplishments. From the 60's perspective we'd be living in space and on other worlds by the 90's. It makes me cautious about having 'dated' elements in a story and I write 'social media' instead of Facebook and Twitter. But it can be awkward. Slang is the same. How do you approach this?
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