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"Conspiracy theories are big because they're comforting. Any conspiracy is infinitely less multiplex than the real deal, which is multiplex to the point of being unknowable."
- William Gibson
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| Chest-Lens | ||
| Part of an automatic photograph-and-send system. |
| "This line is our fleet. Remember how West had it drawn up? It
was a mastermind arranged our
fleet, that day. A genius. We held
them off for twelve hours before
they busted through. Nobody
thought we'd have a chance of
even doing that." Savagely, Unger
gouged another line. "That's the
crow fleet." "I see," West muttered. He leaned over so his chest-lens would vid the rough lines in the gravel back to the scanning center in the mobile unit circling lazily overhead. And from there to main headquarters on Luna. "And the webfoot fleet?" |
| Technovelgy from War Veteran,
by Philip K. Dick. Published by If in 1955 Additional resources -
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Compare to the spotcast from The Little Things (1945) by Henry Kuttner, newstaper gear from Flash Crowd (1972) by Larry Niven and fido from Riders of the Purple Wage (1967) by Philip Jose Farmer and the Tru-Vue Lens from Earth (1990) by David Brin.
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