nineteen-sixties

Updated: May 21, 2025

Then, of course, it was dropped automatically; and the next five days were deliciously, deliriously, ecstatically happy days for them both. At the time of this chronicle the status of interstellar flight was very similar to that of intercontinental jet-plane flight in the nineteen-sixties. Starships were designed by humanity's best brains; carried every safety device those brains could devise.

E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith - Subspace Survivors