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"Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today -- but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all."
- Isaac Asimov
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| Electrotruck | ||
| An autonomous, electric truck. |
| As he watched, [the spacecraft] entered its cradle and was wheeled off toward the waiting electrotrucks. Unloading began immediately; the trucks gulped packages and scurried like beetles toward the warehouses. |
| Technovelgy from The Corkscrew of Space,
by Poul Anderson. Published by Galaxy in 1956 Additional resources -
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Compare to the tractatruck from The Moon is Hell (1950) by John Campbell, the planetruck from The Slave Ship to Andrigo (1951) by Ross Rocklynne and the automatic truck from Mechnocracy (1932) by Miles J. Breurer.
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'But he didn't get very far with it before another noise in his ear radio scattered his thoughts. George winced...'
