SF was never completely void of worldbuilding, even during eras when the
general image of SF was "Sci-Fi", ray guns and rockets and space-girls
(yes, "girls", not "women") in transparent bubble spacesuits with
bikinis underneath for minimum decency.

But sometimes, the extrapolations even in the _good_ worldbuilding
turned out to be wrong. As an example, Crawford Kilian, in his three
I-Screen novels (_The Fall of the Republic_, _The Empire of Time_,
_Rogue Emperor_) postulates "flickreaders" and "fichemongers". The
flickreader was a device that sat on the bridge of your nose and your
ears, like a pair of glasses, and projected page images from cartridges
sold by the fichemonger, implied to be like microfilm/microfiche. The
"flickertube", used in 'Training' (and the capital T was importa

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