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"...the elements of cyberpunk have dissolved into the whole SF genre, so it’s hard to find anyone writing who doesn’t owe serious debts to Gibson and his crew."
- Richard Morgan
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| Lifezone | ||
| An enclosed biosphere; a pod-like greenhouse attached to a space-going vessel. |
These spaces, or devices, could be easily moved. They could be hung in places to take advantage of space or sunlight.
| He puffed heavily as he angled around the bulbous lifezones - huge bubbles extruded from the sleek lines of the Argo, like immense, bruised bodies of parasites. Inside, their opalescent walls ran with dewdrops, shimmering moist jewels hanging a bare finger's width away from hard vacuum. Green fronds pressed here and there against the stretched walls - a sight which at first had terrified him, until he understood that somehow the rubbery yet glassy stuff could take the pokes and presses of living matter without splitting. |
| Technovelgy from Tides of Light,
by Gregory Benford. Published by Bantam in 1989 Additional resources -
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This approach can be contrasted with the use of large hydroponics farms, which have a more industrial flavor to them. The lifezones are themselves of a lifelike form, rather than looking like a factory.
Compare to the spaceship garden from The Heritage of the Earth (1932) by Harley S. Aldinger,
Martian sawgrass from QRM - Interplanetary (1942) by George O. Smith, the
asteroid garden from Asteroid of Fear (1951) by Raymond Z. Gallun,
bubbleworld from At the Bottom of a Hole (1966) by Larry Niven and the
lunar greenhouse tunnel from The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966) by Robert Heinlein.
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