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"I realized there was a heavy-duty change coming in biology, and I could write a really compelling novel about catastrophic evolution, punctuated equilibrium."
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![]() This is an early reference to this kind of device, and is particularly detailed.
Compare to the robot tracking device from Philip K. Dick's 1960 novel Vulcan's Hammer, the scarab robot flying insect from Raymond Z. Gallun's 1936 story The Scarab and the mechanical mice from Eric Frank Russel's chilling 1941 short story The Mechanical Mice. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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Then some unknown race had chanced upon the dreamers and decided to 'help them out.'
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'... you had your trademark Lucky Dragon Global Interactive Video Column outside.'
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'It's an Indian Air Force drone; its solar cells could power an entire farm.'
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'... we were supposed to be forming five unit composites first."
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'We send our eyes on their appointed rounds, and they can hover or soar or back up...'
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'Light from the sun hit those little spheres and bounced.'
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'... the two pairs of waldoes in the screen followed in exact, simultaneous parallelism.'
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