Sources of Science Fiction Ideas
- The idea of humans wired to computer-like systems may have originated with this book (later exploited by cyberpunk writers and in such films as The Matrix).
- The idea of making a moon into a sun had already been used (in a very different spirit) by Arthur C. Clarke in The Sands of Mars.
- Entire worlds serving as spacecraft was proposed as far back as 1937 by Olaf Stapledon in Star Maker.
- Rebellious robots go back as far as R.U.R. (1921).
This work is unusual in having them look nothing like humans and also nothing like their creators. The original purpose of the pyramids was as educational toys for the children of the race who created them.
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