Talk:Danny Dunn

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[edit] "New" sci-fi elements

The following text was added to the main article on November 17, 2006:

The series is notable for putting entirely new possibilities in science fiction, such as that a spaceship could be powered by antigravity repulsion(Danny Dunn and the Anti-Gravity Paint) instead of rockets, That invisibility could be acheived by devices, rather than creams or serums(Invisible boy), or that extraterrestrial messages could be transmission picture messages saying that they are coming in peace(Voice from space) rather than being a voiced message saying ... I don't know, "Invasion immenent. Earthlings, prepare to die!!!"

The problem is none of those elements were remotely new. Space propulsion by anti-gravity is almost as old as science fiction itself, featuring in H.G. Wells' The First Men in the Moon. Invisibility devices were a common trope even in the 1920's, and the "shocking" discovery that the message from space was peaceful was already a cliché by the 1940's. --Suttkus 18:31, 17 November 2006 (UTC)