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"[Science fiction is] an integration of the mood and attitude of science (the objective universe) with the fears and hopes that spring from the unconscious."
- Gregory Benford
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| Hooman | ||
| An alternative spelling. |
| Dick grinned and winked at the others and asked, “What’s the matter, Grampaw? The moles getting into your garden?” And chuckled as Grampaw grabbed up his pierce-gun and hobbled away. Chuckled, that is, until the old man’s answer came floating back over his shoulder.
“Moles be durned! It’s hooman-bein’s, that’s what it is. in-trudin’ on our proppity !” |
| Technovelgy from Castaways of Eros,
by Nelson S. Bond. Published by Planet Stories in 1943 Additional resources -
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