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-Heinlein's readers find themselves in a world which is clearly our own, only projected a few years or decades into the future. It would kill you. No, wait a minute,' he continued, as Jones opened his mouth, 'listen to me. Yet it is apparent that some of Heinlein's fictional forecasts have already come true - not literally but symbolically.

Nobody is going to be forced to leave. He savored the mellow blue of the Pacific Ocean, felt the texture of the soft green and brown of the continents, admired the blue-white cold of the polar caps. No, it will not hurt you; the voltage is quite low, less than one micro-volt, but I must have a good connection. But it's an unsurveyed field and I don't know what spontaneous rumors are running around the ship.