Kim Stanley Robinson says Elon Musk's Mars plan is a "1920s science-fiction cliché"
by Cory Doctorow from on (#1YEGG)
Kim Stanley Robinson, whose seminal Mars trilogy (coming soon to TV?) changed the way we talk about our neighboring planet, says that Musk's Mars colonization plan "is sort of the 1920s science-fiction clichi(C) of the boy who builds a rocket to the moon in his back yard." (more")