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"[Science fiction is] nightmares and visions, always outlined by the barely possible."
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As far as I know, this is the first use of this term.
An unusual early usage for this phrase can be found in Cosmic Engineers, a 1939 story by Clifford Simak:
Simak uses it again in Mr. Meek Plays Polo (1944):
See also space-walker from The Universe Wreckers (1930) by Edmond Hamilton. The idea of a space walk was probably first described in science fiction in Edison's Conquest of Mars (1898) by Garrett P. Serviss; see spacewalk. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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GITAI R1 Lunar Rover Like NASA Robonaut Centaur
'...waldoes in the screen followed in exact, simultaneous parallelism.'
Meshworm Soft Robot, With Peristaltic Crawling, Is Getting Better
'Seen close it was not completely flexible, but made instead of pivoted and smoothly finished segments.'
Biohybrid Robot Combines Living Muscle With Artificial Materials
'...great rectangular slabs of muscle, slung into a rectangular frame.'
Biohybrid Robots Made Of Living And Synthetic Materials
'If the biological robots were not living creatures, they were certainly very good imitations.'
Poul Anderson's 'Brain Wave'
"Everybody and his dog, it seemed, wanted to live out in the country; transportation and communication were no longer isolating factors."
AI Note-Taking From Google Meet
'... the new typewriter that could be talked to, and which transposed the spoken sound into typed words.'
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