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Related to material in Bread Overhead!
by Fritz Leiber
Humorous story explores what happens when corporations manufacture bread using hydrogen and helium as rising agents; a failure to use heavy metal bags resulted in millions of loaves taking flight.
(Walking Mill from Bread Overhead!)
Science fiction in the News articles describe real-world events that relate to the ideas and inventions in sf novels and movies. Select a news article:
Cloud City On Venus?
Interesting ideas from Geoffrey Landis, scientist and sf writer.
Revisiting A Cloud City On Venus
I've been looking forward to something like this since 1980.
HAVOC Over Venus ala Bespin
'Cloud City is an installation on the planet Bespin...'- George Lucas, 1980.
Peyton Manning's French Bread Olympics - Science Fiction Style
'the inauguration of the helium-filled loaf...'
Centipede Robots Down On The Farm
'...the walking mills of Puffy Products began to tread delicately on their centipede legs across the wheat fields of Kansas.' - Fritz Leiber, 1958.
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