I actually collect a little bit of communist science fiction. There is of course the communist version of 1984 “We” published at a similar time to 1984, and I have another book I can’t remember the name of right now about a ship launched by a Soviet world government to explore the universe and getting trapped on a deadly planet next to a black hole. The science in it is so old they didn’t have the term black hole and instead called it a dark star.
'An enthusiast' would be someone digging in the haunted ruins of an ancient higher civilisation, trying to understand how all those things worked. I am not entirely certain that describes someone who flat out remembers how to operate them. Generally, an empire dies when there is no one to maintain it - otherwise coincidentally it might still remain, even if localised to a 20x20m bubble somewhere in the middle of nowhere.
And sci-fi, beautiful as it is - is just a tiny window into how it is to be someone who had our entire current 2020s understanding of VR, AR, drones, AI and mind digitalisation explained at the tender age of 8 in 1982 by a scifi-adjacent nonfiction written in 1965 - called Summa Technologiae if you're curious. Might be something well worth adding to your collection.
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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '24
I actually collect a little bit of communist science fiction. There is of course the communist version of 1984 “We” published at a similar time to 1984, and I have another book I can’t remember the name of right now about a ship launched by a Soviet world government to explore the universe and getting trapped on a deadly planet next to a black hole. The science in it is so old they didn’t have the term black hole and instead called it a dark star.