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Using Sci-fi authors to help with national security is nothing new. Back when "Star Wars", otherwise known as Space Defense Initiative was being funded and sold to the public, the Reagan administration used science fiction authors such as Arthur C. Clarke, who wrote about communications satellites before they existed, and Bear, and others to help selling SDI/"Star Wars". Arthur C. Clarke dropped out after a while when SDI abandoned science fiction for fantasy. SDI/Star Wars didn't work, but belief in it against objective evidence, and loyalty to the program when applying for federal positions, was deemed important to one of the most expensive military programs that is still being funded. Some of the rigged tests with homing mechanisms employed did actually work, though not all rigged tests were successful, lol. It is wonderful technology if and when it does work, but it is important to keep science fiction from degrading into fantasy.
Scifi fan William Monif in Omaha