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First Speaker

(4,858 posts) Tue Jul 21, 2020, 11:08 PM Jul 2020

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Anyone ever read Heinlein's "The Year of the Jackpot"...?

...a short story from 1951, and as compulsively readable as all his, at least, early work was. A man who collects information on trends and long-term cycles realizes that all of them are coming together at once, in one year--the "jackpot". There are plagues, wars, social breakdown, you-name-it. Just maybe, that year was 2020... And on a cheerful, reassuring note, the year in the story ends with the sun going nova, destroying the world...I don't think reality has to follow fiction *that* much...

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Anyone ever read Heinlein's "The Year of the Jackpot"...? (Original Post) First Speaker Jul 2020 OP

Yes - I have been trying to remember the name or author of that story! csziggy Jul 2020 #1

What good is the race of man? TomVilmer Jul 2020 #2

csziggy

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1. Yes - I have been trying to remember the name or author of that story!

Reply to First Speaker (Original post)

Wed Jul 22, 2020, 01:38 AM

Jul 2020

I think it ruined statistics for me since I never wanted to see graphs come together like in that story.

TomVilmer

(1,832 posts)

2. What good is the race of man?

Reply to First Speaker (Original post)

Wed Jul 22, 2020, 12:30 PM

Jul 2020

... Monkeys, he thought, monkeys with a spot of poetry in them.

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