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6. ...I think that was actually Cleve Cartmill...

Reply to SCantiGOP (Reply #3)

Thu Feb 2, 2017, 05:05 PM

Feb 2017

...a story he wrote for Astounding during the War called "Deadline". John Campbell, famous editor of the magazine, convinced the FBI that Astounding had featured so many stories about nuclear power that stopping them suddenly would be more suspicious than letting them continue. Clarke didn't start publishing professionally until after the War.

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Carl Sagan's accurate prediction of the future [View all] SCantiGOP Feb 2017 OP

I think he was just that smart... First Speaker Feb 2017 #1

and Arthur C Clarke SCantiGOP Feb 2017 #3

...I think that was actually Cleve Cartmill... First Speaker Feb 2017 #6

Heinlein was actually arrested during WWII. gordianot Feb 2017 #7

You guys are right SCantiGOP Feb 2017 #8

Heinlien was a real character I spent an entire day with him and his brother... gordianot Feb 2017 #9

He was just that smart. But again, like Hillary, he's not flashy. ffr Feb 2017 #2

good analogy triron Feb 2017 #5

Philip K. Dick's 1963 short story "The Days of Perky Pat" ymetca Feb 2017 #4

There should be a train, track and transport plan for those displaced and it paid for uponit7771 Feb 2017 #10

Very smart malaise Feb 2017 #11