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Review: Between Planets by Robert A. Heinlein
2017/12/04 00:00
  • URL: https://www.billionlightyearbookshelf.com/reviews/betweenplanets.shtml
  • Posted: 2017/12/04 (date: 2017/12/04)
  • Topics: papers please Robert A. Heinlein US/gov/TSA
  • Summary: «The security procedures Don has to go through before boarding the suborbital shuttle to New Chicago is another of those things that would not be at all surprising to a modern reader accustomed to TSA manhandling on airplane security lines. However, for a reader at the time it was originally published, it would have been a very clear sign that this was not entirely a bright future, for all that it had an interplanetary frontier of wide-open spaces and readily accessible spaceflight to take you there. Back in the 1950's, that sort of "papers please" scrutiny was something that happened in Those Countries Over There, not in the US. Which upon reflection does not say much good about the current US security state.»
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