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   From: jamesd@echeque.com   
      
   On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 19:13:24 -0700 (PDT), Phlip    
   wrote:   
      
   > On Jul 1, 3:24 pm, James A. Donald  wrote:   
      
   > > Ayn Rand's stories are generally set in the near or distant future of   
   > > her time, or set in a parallel future, alternate history, story   
   > > frequently depends on an imaginary technological innovation.  Sure   
   > > sounds like Science Fiction to me.  Her heroes are commonly science   
   > > fictional in exactly the same way as Tony Stark is science fictional.   
      
   > BS. I actually read /The Fountainhead/. It was about the Roaring 20s,   
   > and the Stock Market Crash (which she deftly blamed on undocumented   
   > guest laborers, instead of stock brokers following her advice, IIRC),   
   > culminating with the construction of a tower resembling the Empire   
   > State Building.   
      
   "Atlas shrugged" is set in the near future, alternate history, plot   
   driven by technological innovation.  "Anthem" is set in the far   
   future,  "We the living" depicts actually existent communism, and is   
   set in the all-too real world, and the actual present of her youth in   
   Russia.   
      
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