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"Tokyo homeless people reiterate the whole nature of living in Tokyo in cardboard boxes, they're only slightly smaller than Tokyo apartments, and they have almost as many consumer goods. It's a nightmare of boxes within boxes."
- William Gibson
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| Shuttle | ||
| A space craft that travels point to point in space. |
| I didn't even know he was on that particular shuttle. It's just that, aside from the fact that I happen to be Senior Release officer on Curbstone, I like to meet the shuttles. |
| From Stars are Styx,
by Theodore Sturgeon. Published by Galaxy SF in 1950 Additional resources -
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See also references to shuttle ship and Winged Rocket Shuttle from Heinlein's 1951 novel Between Planets and JAL shuttle from Gibson's 1984 novel Neuromancer.
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