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Science Fiction Writers - Isaac Asimov
In the book Dream Makers Volume 1 by Charles Platt published in 1980, some of the writers interviewed offer their thoughts about what was then in humanity's future. Isaac Asimov had this to say about the explosion in population:
“My feeling is that the chance of our surviving into the twenty-first century as a working civilization is less than fifty percent but greater than zero. There are several items, each one of which is sufficient to do us in. Number one is the population problem. If we multiply sufficiently, then, even if everything else goes right, we're still going to ruin ourselves. Unfortunately it's difficult to make people see this, but I imagine that the time will come very shortly in which a third child will be outlawed, by prohibitive taxation, or forcible sterilization after the second child. Only two things will prevent this. One: if nonviolent means of reducing the birthrate prevail; in other words, if human beings choose not to have too many children. Two: if the population problem overtakes us so that the world is reduced to chaos and anarchy before we can even try drastic means.”
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My Cislunar Series of short stories grew out of a presentation I watched online. This series in the Remembered Earth Universe will be more n...
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This is the main website for the writer D.W.Patterson (me) and will be used to add comments and sometimes samples of my fiction. The type o...
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In the following excerpt from the Future Chron Universe novella "Vigilance," a rocket Click For More Info jockey has been hired by...
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In cleaning up this website and trying to make a more uniform presentation I have taken out any references to my in progress story, The Real...
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A sample of the novel, Time's End , is now posted under the Story Samples tab. It is the second novel in the Time Series Trilogy.