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It would be a unique and exotic sight, wouldn't it?
Eric Frank Russell lets his imagination go in Sinister Barriers (1939):
They hit ground level, and Wohl
straightened out, saying, “Those whirligigs sure give me a kick!”
Graham swallowed a suitable remark,
his attention caught by the long, streamlined, aluminium-bronze shape of another gyrocar. ■ It flashed along William
Street toward them, passed with an audible swoosh of air, sped up the ramp
to the corkscrew from which they had
just descended. As it passed, Graham’s
sharp eyes caught sight of a pale, haggard face staring fixedly through the
machine’s flexible glass windshield...
Wohl pressed the accelerator stud, the two-wheeled speedster plunged forward, its incased gyroscope emitting a faint hum...
He held his breath while
they cut round another decrepit four-wheeler whose driver gesticulated
wildly.
“Every jellopy ought to be banned
from the skyways,” Wohl snarled.
Compare to the Gyro-Hat from An Experiment in Gyro-Hats (1926) by Ellis Parker Butler, the directed cars in tunnels from The Lord of Tranerica (1939) by Stanton A. Coblentz, the tumblebug from The Roads Must Roll (1940) by Robert Heinlein, the Two-Wheeled Ground Car from First Lensman (1950) by E.E. 'Doc' Smith, the Gyro Two-Wheeled Truck from The Sign of the Tiger (1958) by Alan Nourse (w/Meyer), the Gyrocar (Gyro) from The Ring (1969) by Piers Anthony (w/R. Margroff) and the smart bike from Distraction (1998) by Bruce Sterling. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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