gregjohn wrote:
> I've been reading some of those 19th century tales.  It is interesting that
> there is a very different feel to "20,000 Leagues" than a typical 60's scifi
> novel.  In the older works, the authors are all about amazement at the grandeur
> before them. In the latter ones, everyone is jaded about how society's worst
> problems came along with them to Mars or the moon.

I guess after a couple decades of science promising New York but 
delivering New Jersey, people got a bit cynical ;)

...Chambers

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