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"...the space defense initiative drove the USSR bankrupt, and it originated at my house in Tarzana."
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| Alien Self-Government | ||
| Rules to assure intelligent aliens the right to govern themselves in freedom. |
| "I tell you that man would never have gone into Carson's Planet the way he did, if he had known it was inhabited by intelligent beings. There are strict laws that govern even under military necessity..."
 ('Co-Operate or Else' by A.E. van Vogt) "More than three thousand of this races now have self-government. Man does not long deny to any basically good intelligence the liberty and freedom of action which he needs so much himself-" |
| Technovelgy from Co-Operate or Else,
by A.E. van Vogt. Published by Astounding in 1942 Additional resources -
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Compare to the Prime Directive from With Folded Hands (1947) by Jack Williamson, Relations with Extraterrestrial Life from Ogre (1944) by Clifford Simak and to the Law of Contact from Orphans of the Void (1952) by Orville Shaara.
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