It struck me during the Apollo Moon Missions that many of the engineers involved mentioned reading Jules Verne stories as children. If Science Fiction stories can inspire staggering technological feats such as this, maybe imaginative adventures about social challenges could inspire others to instigate comparable social projects.
I suggest an annual competition to find the most inspiring children's adventure story that has imaginative social advances as its theme.
Martin Thomas, 107A Westbridge Road, Portswood, Southampton SO2 1HJ.
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