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"Tokyo homeless people reiterate the whole nature of living in Tokyo in cardboard boxes, they're only slightly smaller than Tokyo apartments, and they have almost as many consumer goods. It's a nightmare of boxes within boxes."
- William Gibson
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| Air-Dock | ||
| A docking mechanism that seems to catch a descending space-ship in mid-air. |
| Ten miles away—five—a single mile. The air-dock seemed to move leisurely toward the Planetaria’s keel. Donald saw a cluster of buildings about it, the fence of duroferrin surrounding them, and, outside, the scattered huts of the exiles.
Then the space-ship began settling lightly down, her keel scraped the receiving arms of the dock, and, by the pressure of a lever within the engine-room, a hundred windows were opened simultaneously. Fresh air rushed in — air of Inferno, yet singularly sweet after the canned air of the past three days and nights. Donald drew in a chestful as the ship came to rest, and a score of dock attendants—men recruited on earth at high rates of pay, came running to make fast the magnetized anchors as each sought its individual magnetic post. |
| Technovelgy from Revolt on Inferno,
by Victor Rousseau. Published by Miracle Science and Fantasy Stories in 1931 Additional resources -
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