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Perfect Day's main appeal, however, is not to sci-fi addicts but to collectors of Utopian minutiae. In Uni-land, for instance, men have no beards. Women have no breasts, but whether for sheer efficiency or simple streamlining one never knows. Everybody dies at exactly age 62. Sex begins at 14 and can be had with anyone one likes, but on Saturday night only. So much for tub night...
...time to go to a class to get a reading list-but there is other stuff to read. Someone will leave a book on the coffee table, and, if it stays there long enough, Doug will eventually pick it up and read it. Last week he read a sci-fi novel, Thomas Berger's Little Big Man, a collection of Donald Barthelme short stories and a cookbook...
Five hundred fifty-five ballots-representing about 75 per cent of the Faculty-were counted Friday by a computer using a program devised by students in Nat Sci 110 under the supervision of William H. Bossert, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics...
When John Dille, head of the National Newspaper Syndicate, decided to put out a science-fiction comicstrip, he did some reading in sci-fi magazines-then just entering their fabled Golden Age-and found two stories he liked; "Armageddon 2419 A. D." and "The Warlords of Han." both by Phil Nowlan. He fast-talked Nowlan into writing the new strip, got him together with an artist named Dick Calkins, and let him go. The strip that resulted ran for almost forty years in newspapers all over the world...
Nowlan, a deep-dyed sci-fi fanatic, was not going to let any garbage about what the public would accept stand in the way of his imagination. When I began the book I expected to see the usual massculture view of the future world: the glory of the future American superstate-usually a "World Government" democratically ruled by Americans-in which supercars zoom over mega-highways toward ultracities. But on page 21 found myself staring at the Destruction of the Washington Monument by the Mongols...