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In the March 1944 issue of Astounding, Cleve Cartmill wrote a story about an atomic bomb, a bomb which used a critical quantity of U-235 in a pair of hemispheres with a beryllium neutron reflector and an explosive/radium trigger. ( http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0310/ref.shtml ) That was more than a year before the first successful test.
SF isn't supposed to be predictive, or not much, anyway. Sometimes it's wish-fulfillment and sometimes it's straight line extrapolation. And sometimes it succeeds all too wildly.
_Deep State_, by Walter Jon Williams, was written over a year ago, published a week or two ago, and is happening right now in Egypt and some other Middle Eastern countries. Dubjay is probably half-chortling, half-weeping. A year from now, this will look horribly dated.
Mostly.
It's also a sequel to _This is Not a Game_, featuring the same wonderful female protagonist, passing the Bechdel Test, and showcasing some great action sequences and some nifty puzzles. Perhaps he can sell movie rights to TINAG; but I don't think anyone will want to make a movie of DS -- the critics would all see that it was an inaccurate re-imagining of real events. Who wants to see that?
SF isn't supposed to be predictive, or not much, anyway. Sometimes it's wish-fulfillment and sometimes it's straight line extrapolation. And sometimes it succeeds all too wildly.
_Deep State_, by Walter Jon Williams, was written over a year ago, published a week or two ago, and is happening right now in Egypt and some other Middle Eastern countries. Dubjay is probably half-chortling, half-weeping. A year from now, this will look horribly dated.
Mostly.
It's also a sequel to _This is Not a Game_, featuring the same wonderful female protagonist, passing the Bechdel Test, and showcasing some great action sequences and some nifty puzzles. Perhaps he can sell movie rights to TINAG; but I don't think anyone will want to make a movie of DS -- the critics would all see that it was an inaccurate re-imagining of real events. Who wants to see that?
