Ken MacLeod's comments.
The title comes from two quotes:
“Work as if you lived in the early days of a better nation.”—Alasdair Gray.
“If these are the early days of a better nation, there must be hope, and a hope of peace is as good as any, and far better than a hollow hoarding greed or the dry lies of an aweless god.”—Graydon Saunders
Wahoo! Life-extension pills developed from microbes found in soil in a remote location, nine years ahead of plan! Can spindizzies really be that far away now?
Blish, his version was "ascomycin" from 'They Shall Have Stars", can't remember if it came directly from soil samples collected on earth or from elsewhere in the Solar System though.
Wahoo! Life-extension pills developed from microbes found in soil in a remote location, nine years ahead of plan! Can spindizzies really be that far away now?
ReplyDeleteWhich SF novel are you alluding to for the microbes? (I'm guessing - too lazy to look it up - either Blish or Wyndham.)
ReplyDeleteBlish, his version was "ascomycin" from 'They Shall Have Stars", can't remember if it came directly from soil samples collected on earth or from elsewhere in the Solar System though.
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