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What America needs is truth telling about the past and the present, which is what the Smithsonian does best.
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Marybeth Gasman, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
If the future is a fireworks show, how much does the present matter?
—Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
Many key science fiction texts are set in alternate pasts, parallel versions of the present, or entirely nonterrestrial time frames.
—Nick Foster
august 26, Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2025
Anything that inches them away from the interminable Hellscape of the present.
—Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 23 Aug. 2025
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Marybeth Gasman, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
If the future is a fireworks show, how much does the present matter?
—Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
Many key science fiction texts are set in alternate pasts, parallel versions of the present, or entirely nonterrestrial time frames.
—Nick Foster
august 26, Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2025
Anything that inches them away from the interminable Hellscape of the present.
—Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 23 Aug. 2025
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“The present.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20present. Accessed 31 Aug. 2025.
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