In Where’s My Jetpack?, Daniel H. Wilson takes a satirical look at the futuristic technologies that science fiction has optimistically imagined, but that have thus far not been invented, such as the outer-space hotel described in Curt Siodmak’s 1959 Sky Port:
“Tell me the general idea you have in mind … What is this thing that’s so revolutionary and so daring? Fantastic and at the same time logical?” … [Lee’s] eyes brightened as if an inner light had been turned on … “I need your assistance in building a hotel in outer space,” he [replied] artlessly.