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When You Lose Interest In A Series You Once Liked

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The idea of pain as we age scares me.

It shouldn’t, in my case I have an hereditary illness with aggravating factors. Its statistically unlikely you would experience the same discomfort. It only became apparent in my case well into adulthood as pain I had historically normalized or written off earlier in life became impossible to ignore.
 
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And Tribbles were 14 years old when they were plagiarized into a Star Trek episode, a Martian Flat Cat is the same by any name.

Thank you for doing Heinlein some justice by pointing that out.
 
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If SF is based purely on the speculative plot element as opposed to on other concepts it is vulnerable to becoming yesterday’s news, or lack thereof, such as the case may be. Not so much growing up, but the passage of time.
 
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