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"If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction."
- Frederik Pohl
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| One-Man Rocket | ||
| A small rocket ship with only a pilot. |
An early use of this phrase.
| Far ahead of them in the void the scene of combat to which
they had been summoned was rushing into view. A tiny and
shining one-man rocket was dodging and twisting and circling
in space, with its firing-tubes flaming first on one end and
then on the other to keep it in an ever-changing course. And
around it, like a great grim pike rushing a shining chub, was
circling and swooping a long dead-black rocket of the same
size almost as the Earth-Guard craft. It was the dreaded black
rocket of the Hawk, reputed the swiftest craft in space.
The grim black rocket, whirling and dipping with a swift- ness of maneuver astounding in a ship of its size, was endeav- oring to bring the twisting little craft that evaded it into the line of its guns. As their own ship thundered down on the scene, Evans and Calden saw the one side of the Hawk’s rocket stabbing forth a half-score slender jets of blue fire as its electric-guns blasted toward the smaller craft. But the latter had shot upward in time to avoid the fire, and in the next moment the Earth-Guard rocket was rushing down upon the ebon attacker. |
| Technovelgy from Evans of the Earth-Guard,
by Edmond Hamilton. Published by Air Wonder Stories in 1930 Additional resources -
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