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Stranger in Paradise
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First published in Worlds Of If (May-June 1974 issue), by Isaac Asimov, both the American and UK versions. Also included in their The Best From If, Vol. 2 (1974) anthology. This novelette focuses on a pair of brothers.Anthony Smith is a telemetrics engineer working on the Mercury Project, humanity's initial efforts in colonizing the innermost planet. His older brother, William Anti-Aut, is a homologist, which means he studies neurodivergent brains/genetics.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })When Anthony's department is hitting a dead end in their work, he suggests that they hire an expert on human brains to come and help them program the new system. Unexpectedly, his boss invites his own brother to help the team, forcing the two to work together. They design Mercury Computer to operate a robotic body from Earth, a task with a latency of several minutes."Stranger in Paradise" has been republished five times; Wollheims Worlds Best SF: Series Four (1975), The Bicentennial Man And Other Stories (1976), Science Fiction Stories 81 (1980), The Complete Robot (1982), and The Complete Stories, Volume 2 (1992). | |
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After the End: In this setting, Earth suffered some sort of Catastrophe over five hundred years ago. It never goes into the specifics, but characters attribute their Population Control and Colonized Solar System to that crisis. | |
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Autism in Media: This Short Story from 1974 features Randall Nowan, an autistic child who is a background character. He has severe deficits in verbal and nonverbal social communication skills, described as shrinking into the wall of his own skin, from a rare genetic combination. | |
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20 Minutes into the Future: Five hundred years after the Catastrophe, human beings are settling the solar system; colonies on The Moon, Mars, the asteroid belt and Jupiter's moons. Another expedition is heading to colonize Titan and Anthony Smith is helping to get a robotic presence on Mercury. We also have the ruins of Old New York City and the study of Autism is called Homology. | |
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