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Vernor Vinge. His 1991 novel Across Realtime joins three stories he wrote in the mid 1980s around a central mystery: What happened to everybody?
Stewart Brand • The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and Responsibility
There you have the start of Herland! One family, all descended from one mother! She lived to a hundred years old; lived to see her hundred and twenty-five great-granddaughters born; lived as Queen-Priestess-Mother of them all; and died with a nobler pride and a fuller joy than perhaps any human soul has ever known—she alone had founded a new race!
Charlotte Gilman • Herland
Emulation of more noxious aspects of adolescence, rather than the clearheaded pristine innocence of authentic childhood.
Philip K. Dick • The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics)
