Via @parabasis an old Isaac Asimov critique of Orwell's 1984: http://www.newworker.org/ncptrory/1984.htm …
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Depends what future transportation looks like...we have no idea
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Dramatic license? I think Orwell's vision was understandable given the year it was written.
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Well, they just about all cheat and use faster-than-light travel
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BUT you could still do the Empire sublight, with very long-lived ppl / stable institutions / robots
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When the Empire collapsed it absurdly had *a quintillion* subjects. Not plausible! It's a 40s fantasy of saving knowledge amid social ruin
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Foundation has long been overdue for the epic Hollywood adaptation.
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It's not a function of distance but of travel/communication times (which right now, maybe forever, is a function of distance) ...
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... Space opera tends to shorten both to standards of around 1850 so galactic empires look like British empire, benevolent versions of not
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