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"Science fiction and science have always danced around each other. Science fiction is the subconscious of science."
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THX 1138 finds his way into what looks like a phone booth, but it turns out to be a kind of robotic confessional - a unichapel.
The booth shows images of Jesus on a view screen; answers are generated automatically by the computerized booth.
Don't forget, everyone:
Readers will note the similarity to Philip K. Dick's Padre booth in his 1969 novel Galactic Pot-Healer. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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