Escalante
And there’s just total silence.
And the witness says, “It is an interesting thought,” and they all move on.
[This story is related in Visions of Technology, edited by Richard Rhodes, p108 in my edition.]
Oh it’s a wonderful thing. When the world changes so completely that there’s not even any gravity, of course we need to re-think things as fundamental as vegetables.
Now that’s proper science fiction.