1. Public education in Space Futureland is about as awful as it is here and now, if the best books you can get were written almost two hundred years ago
Books from hundreds of years ago being treated as up-to-date and uber-relevant in THE WOOOOOORLD OF TOMORROOOOOOW bugs the hell outta me. A particularly egregious example (forgive my shameless TV Tropes-ese) came when I was listening to a Doctor Who audioplay the other day which took place in the mindscape of a girl from the 50th century. Said mindscape was populated by "characters from the books of her childhood" such as Alice Liddel, Dracula and the Artful Dodger. I can dig that audiences won't have the same immediate mental associations and connections with fictional books of the future, but someone at least *trying* would be nice.
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Books from hundreds of years ago being treated as up-to-date and uber-relevant in THE WOOOOOORLD OF TOMORROOOOOOW bugs the hell outta me. A particularly egregious example (forgive my shameless TV Tropes-ese) came when I was listening to a Doctor Who audioplay the other day which took place in the mindscape of a girl from the 50th century. Said mindscape was populated by "characters from the books of her childhood" such as Alice Liddel, Dracula and the Artful Dodger. I can dig that audiences won't have the same immediate mental associations and connections with fictional books of the future, but someone at least *trying* would be nice.