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The Science Fiction Fan, v. 4, issue 8, whole no. 44, March 1940
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10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FAN [handwritten with illustration] UTOPIA DEFERRED by T. Bruce Yerke [typewritten] In the general literature of the period in 1926, you never saw anything about the future, or the "City of Tomorrow" such as one does today. Only in a few books and the scientifical magazines like Gernsback's Science and Mechanics Popular Mechanics, and a few others were such thoughts voiced. People were no less intelligent in those days, because as we know only too well, the best of stories were written before 1930, or slightly afterwards. Reference to what people would be doing in 2000 A.D., or anything of that nature was instantly given the horselaugh. Possibly it was because that in those dark days after '29, people were too busy trying to live till tomorrow, let alone giving a damn about what their offsprings would be doing in 2000 A.D. A shack on Main Street was a prize possession for many people, and they didn't care for any of the Utopian plans that their future fellow men would enjoy. The fact that people now begin to look forward might even be interpreted as an indication that the depression is really over. When people begin to plan ahead that means they are
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10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FAN [handwritten with illustration] UTOPIA DEFERRED by T. Bruce Yerke [typewritten] In the general literature of the period in 1926, you never saw anything about the future, or the "City of Tomorrow" such as one does today. Only in a few books and the scientifical magazines like Gernsback's Science and Mechanics Popular Mechanics, and a few others were such thoughts voiced. People were no less intelligent in those days, because as we know only too well, the best of stories were written before 1930, or slightly afterwards. Reference to what people would be doing in 2000 A.D., or anything of that nature was instantly given the horselaugh. Possibly it was because that in those dark days after '29, people were too busy trying to live till tomorrow, let alone giving a damn about what their offsprings would be doing in 2000 A.D. A shack on Main Street was a prize possession for many people, and they didn't care for any of the Utopian plans that their future fellow men would enjoy. The fact that people now begin to look forward might even be interpreted as an indication that the depression is really over. When people begin to plan ahead that means they are
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