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"The idea I want to push next is that the United States should make Siberia a Protectorate. Pay the Russians off – a hundred, two hundred billion dollars – and simply run Siberia in an ecologically responsible way."
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![]() As far as I know, this is the first use of the word "gate" to describe this idea.
Although this seems to have been the first, Jack Williamson used the same word and idea in his Through the Purple Cloud published just a few months later in Wonder Stories:
This idea has been used many times; I was also thinking of how Robert Heinlein used the idea of the Ramsbotham Gate from his 1955 novel Tunnel in the Sky:
Also, compare to the Invasion Gate for Aliens from Monsters of Mars (1931) by Edmond Hamilton, the gateway from Wanderer of Infinity (1933) by Harl Vincent, the Jiffy-Scuttler from Prominent Author (1954) by Philip K. Dick, Ramsbotham Gate from Tunnel in the Sky (1955) by Robert Heinlein, the farcaster from Hyperion (1989) by Dan Simmons. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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