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"I kind of take it for granted that our great-grandchildren will regard us as a sort of precursor species. That they won't think of us as human and if we could see them, we probably wouldn't think of them as human either."
- William Gibson
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| Surface Slider | ||
| A small, lightweight craft. |
| "Gersen hired a car, a small surface slider, and skidded south over the broad white turnpike, the inevitable dust puffing up behind him." |
| Technovelgy from The Star King,
by Jack Vance. Published by Berkeley in 1964 Additional resources -
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This is a widely used idea in sf. Compare to the skimmer from Roger Zelazny's 1966 novel This Immortal and the landspeeder from George Lucas' 1978 novel Star Wars.
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