Definitely past-future. What was REALLY eye-opening was, last summer when I went to the Frank Lloyd Wright exhibit at the Guggenheim, to realize just how much of Heinlein's vision of future-America was based on Wright's vision of the Non-City Of The Future. The super-tall building complexes, the robot-control helicopter-taxis, the swaths of green space AROUND the city-building-thingies -- looking at Wright's drawings is like looking at an illustration for the earlier parts of Stranger, except Wright drew it before Heinlein wrote it. That was pretty cool.
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Date: 2010-08-19 09:53 pm (UTC)