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"The way you write science fiction is: you sit down at your writing machine and you open your mind to the first thought that comes through."
- Frederik Pohl
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| Galactovue | ||
| Star display. |
| He got up and switched on the
Galactovue he had had installed. It
showed only the explored fraction of
the Galaxy — even so, the scale was
fantastically small. He began operating controls. First he lighted in
green the Nine Worlds. Then he
added, in yellow, pestholes avoided
by the People. He lighted up the
two planets between which he and
his parents had been captured, then
did the same for every missing ship
of the People concerning which he
happened to know the span of the
uncompleted jump.
The result was a constellation of colored lights, fairly close together as star distances go and in the same sector as the Nine Worlds. Thorby looked at it and whistled. Pop had known what he was talking about — yet it would be hard to spot unless displayed like this. He began thinking about cruising ranges and fueling stations maintained by Galactic Transport out that way . . . then added in orange the banking offices of Galactic Acceptance Corporation in the "neighborhood.” |
| Technovelgy from Citizen of the Galaxy,
by Robert Heinlein. Published by Astounding Science Fiction in 1957 Additional resources -
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