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[RT][SF][DC] Tomorrow Town
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Author: u/PeridexisErrant put aside fear for courage, and death for life*
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URL: http://johnnyalucard.com/fiction/online-fiction/tomorrow-town/
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Score: 2
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Created: 2014-09-30T11:56:32
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u/duffmancd [+1] (13 hours later)
I found this story overall a bit 'meh'. The vision of the future imagined by the past was interesting but I felt that the story was too short for the characters to display much rationalism, and the villain(s) wasn't/weren't particularly impressive either.
I'm also trying to work out how a battery powered circular slide rule works. I've used this circular slide rule as part of my pilot licence and the main benefit is that it doesn't use batteries. The best I can come up with is a slide rule with a digital display like those digital calipers you can buy. Anyone else have any clue? Or was it meant to be a joke, which I just missed?
u/blazinghand [+1] Chaos Undivided (a day later)
I assumed it was supposed to be a reference to very early electronic calculators (which I think surfaced in the 60s or 70s), but given that electronic slide rules existed, it probably referred to that.