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"It's also important to vary your stimuli. I always look for new things to shock the system. Just as you make muscles grow by shocking them, you make the mind grow by shocking it."
- Bart Kosko
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| City Ship | ||
| A generation ship, a spacecraft that carries a people to another star. |
| Out in space, the corridors of the city-ships were empty, and the music was growing slow and faint. And on the planet below, the nova had set in the western sky at last. |
| Technovelgy from Star of Wonder,
by Julian May. Published by Thrilling Wonder Stories in 1953 Additional resources -
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Another phrase for a generation ship.
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