[extropy-chat] wretched journalists strike again

Damien Broderick thespike at satx.rr.com
Sun Dec 11 22:47:47 UTC 2005


At 05:12 PM 12/11/2005 -0500, DL wrote:

>Can you trace the idea back to anything earlier than Pohl & Kornbluth in 
>The Space Merchants, which featured "Chicken Little" growing in a vat? 
>(Serialized in Galaxy as "Gravy Planet", starting June 1952)

Jim Blish had edible algae in the spindizzy tales ("Bindlestiff", 
Astounding, Dec 1950, has the Chlorella flourishing in their tanks). Not 
quite the same as meat in a vat, true.

Damien Broderick 




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