Just amazing how some of these old stories seem to predict aspects of the future so well. I always did love reading sci-fi. It's incredible what you learn as you're entertained and it's a great education booster.
@paulbennett7723 жыл бұрын
Listening in 2021, it seems extraordinarily prescient.
@shadowforger20353 жыл бұрын
Wow so the Doctors take over politics through fear of infectious disease. That could never happen 😂
@DCShaneTours10 ай бұрын
Okay so the doctors took over the politics in 2019 let's see what happened to me, my SNAP food stamp monthly allotment went up 700%, my DC Medicaid and Medicare got extra funding and it was easier for me to re-enroll. And then what bad thing pray tell did they do to you. Please show me on the doll where the political doctors hurt you. If wearing a flimsy surgical mask when you go buy your macaroni and cheese at the grocery store hurts you that much, I don't know what to say. I don't see any major freedoms and rights being stomped on. As far as corporate America goes, corporate America controls our medical industry, and corporate America runs our government, so the medical industry being political and running things is actually not anything new. Watch Micheal Moore's Sicko. Medicare For All Now!!!
@ericdunbar62302 жыл бұрын
This guy brought his Chrystal ball. Just a few minor details. Instead of old broken down spaceships we have an old broken down space station. Medical lobby is by far the most powerful but other than that spot on.
@elizdonovan56504 жыл бұрын
Another excellent reading and story. Thank you. 🌲🌝☘️
@patrickmullane304 жыл бұрын
Tom Rose’s reading is phenomenal.
@chipslatersstorytimetheate624 жыл бұрын
I will agree!
@ДимонмедведИзДурки11 ай бұрын
I support 100%. Reader is 50% of success of audiobook.
@lewismingledorff6417 Жыл бұрын
Lester Del Ray…a prophet among other prophets not just of science fiction, but of politics.
@tyroniousyrownshoolacez23472 жыл бұрын
Thomas Rose. Savage. Wow! Great narration.
@Firecracker663 жыл бұрын
Woke up while this was playing and thought I was listening. To the news...
@chipslatersstorytimetheate623 жыл бұрын
I slept in lol.
@steveh7866 Жыл бұрын
Thank you - glad I persevered - tried two narrated by prosac abusers, and one ladybird spot the dog reader - this one had just enough life :)
@fistofthebrownstar3 жыл бұрын
The whole plague part of the story was interesting and fairly on point. Except for the part about America getting out unscathed 😑. Now if it said America was the one who got hit the worst due to incompetence which caused huge medical reforms then this book would be like looking in a mirror.
@billjonesjr87183 жыл бұрын
Thank you.
@deadsi4 жыл бұрын
Listening and thinking this all sounds v familiar, then it gets to the bit about a global pandemic from China..
@sebastianmelmoth91002 жыл бұрын
I love this short novel.
@grms192 жыл бұрын
Just, Wow! Listen to this one!!!
@karlgru3n6544 жыл бұрын
Wonder what year this was written. Very insightful. Ey? Thanks for the wonderful channel. ;)
@chipslatersstorytimetheate624 жыл бұрын
I believe it was written in 1963 for Galaxy magazine.
@karlgru3n6544 жыл бұрын
@@chipslatersstorytimetheate62 I was just a babe... Cut my psy teeth on Bob Heinlein. Plenty of that online. Again, Thank you for the info and channel.
@horrormike3 жыл бұрын
It's incredible. del Rey's description of the U.S. future, pandemic, China, space...stunningly accurate albeit slightly different outcomes.
@Janet_scribbles2 жыл бұрын
Plague coming from China? Medical lobbies? When was this written?
@mosart70252 жыл бұрын
I think Chip said 1963. For real, right?!
@bryine.willis86833 жыл бұрын
Let it set
@jayturner339710 ай бұрын
Ahh 'twas ever thus, methinks 😊
@cl8444 жыл бұрын
15:40
@redx5894 жыл бұрын
I swear these old school sci fi authors were prophets. lol.
@cl8444 жыл бұрын
@@redx589 it was foretold you would say that....
@chrisweidner47683 жыл бұрын
Hmmmm. Sounds like now. Be free. Awaken the naive.
@niccoarcadia41793 жыл бұрын
1963. Premise. In the future, powerful unions called lobbies control much of society. One of the most powerful lobbies is the medical lobby, which following a pandemic that spread across earth, has ..
@niccoarcadia41793 жыл бұрын
Just like today? Did the author's predictions turn out to be correct? Note within the story the pandemic that China spread. LOL. Anyway it's a great story with lots of insight into lobbies & how they work.
@jessbagz77763 жыл бұрын
i read the book, it didn't says china.
@bobtheblindbedroomguitaris87422 жыл бұрын
H and I will
@Carlos-do1ny3 жыл бұрын
I have a feeling this guy was pro slavery. At least we've got h.p. Lovecraft's open mind and progressive ideas.
@Ryansghost3 жыл бұрын
America has hardly changed at all in the future.
@prozachblinded-butterflies55303 жыл бұрын
lol
@paulbennett7723 жыл бұрын
Listening in 2021, it seems extraordinarily prescient.