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"I was perfectly satisfied to write science fiction knowing that it would pay very little, that it would be seen by only a very few people."
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Compare to the ships with legs from Buck Rogers: 2430 AD (1929) by Nowlan and Calkin, the metal monster from The Doom from Planet 4 (1931) by Jack Williamson, the walker wagon from Farmer in the Sky (1950) by Robert Heinlein, the robass from The Quest for Saint Aquin (1951) by Anthony Boucher, the walking mill from Bread Overhead! (1958) by Fritz Leiber, the centipede from Killing Titan (2015) by Greg Bear and the walking fort from The Killing Machine (1964) by Jack Vance. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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'The crawling, exploring object was V-Stephen's surgeon-hand...'
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'It radiates outward in a cone which, by the time it has reached our section of space, is many lightyears across.'
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'Drake was the young spatial engineer he employed to terraform the little rock.'
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'... with a weird simulation of life, the ten forked ends of each arm commenced a rattling pressing of the buttons.'
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'Each of the four areas is enclosed by a sonic wall...'
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'It's done with a flip of the third joint of the tentacle on the down beat.'
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'If you surf over a bump... If you surf over a pothole...'
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