DagwoodIII

Let me come at this from a slightly different angle.

In the movie “Apocalypse Now” there’s a scene where Martin Sheen gets drunk and does tai-chi exercises in his Saigon hotel room. When I first saw the movie I thought it was stupid Hollywood nonsense. Later on I saw a documentary about the movie, and one of the people they interviewed was a CIA asset who would have been one of Sheen’s colleagues.

The CIA agent said that doing drunk tai-chi was absolutely a thing that character would have done.

The point is that in storytelling it’s hard to tell what details to use and which to avoid.

Wrong clip

“The way Lem describes or invents the future.”

Here’s a story from Star Trek’s first season. There was an episode where, in one scene, a salt shaker was a major plot point. The producers’ first thought was to go out and buy a lot of fancy, futuristic looking salt shakers. The problem was that everything looked too futuristic; they didn’t look like the salt shakers the audience was familiar with. In the end they used a mundane 1960s salt shaker and gave the fancy ones to Dr. McCoy to put in his medical bag.

Remember that not every reader was conversant with all the new technology. I’d wager that even hardcore science fiction fans were up to date on all computer technology in 1969. I’m sure I could find a dozen tech breakthroughs from the past decade that you never heard of.

Lincoln was a champion wrestler, so I’d be careful making jokes.

No one wants to get choke slammed by a ghost.

https://nwhof.org/hall_of_fame/bio/128

Actually, there have been stories about Abe Lincoln for years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexuality_of_Abraham_Lincoln

Exactly, which is why I tell people not to bother with labels.

Don’t argue the difference between a Socialist and a Social Democrat, talk about why your candidate is better, and can do more for the voters.

The GOP realized there’s a year until the midterms.

They will throw Trump under the bus and claim none of them knew anything.

Does anyone know which book this is based on?

edit = silly me. Dune Messiah. as per the interwebs