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"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection."
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Of course you'd want your space suit's hinged mittens to swing back out of the way - you can't aim and shoot a ray-gun with mittens!
Compare to space mittens from Space Flotsam (1934) by Raymond Z. Gallun.
Compare, if you like, these almost entirely dissimilar items: the spray-on gloves from Abercrombie Station (1952) by Jack Vance,
the karatand from Stand on Zanzibar (1968) by John Brunner,
the sand trout glove from Children of Dune (1976) by Frank Herbert and the spray-on surgical glove from Altered Carbon (2003) by Richard Morgan. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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