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"[Science fiction is] anything that turns you and your social context, the social you, inside out."
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![]() As far as I know, this is the first use of the word "spaceplane" in science fiction.
Here is the first panel in which it appears:
(Spaceplane panel from 'Zarnak' by Max Plaisted) Compare to the space shuttle fro Hell Ship of Space (1940) by Frederic Arnold Kummer, Jr., the shuttle from Stars are Styx (1950) by Theodore Sturgeon, the shuttle ship and Winged Rocket Shuttle from Heinlein's 1951 novel Between Planets, the JAL shuttle from Gibson's 1984 novel Neuromancer and the Clarke Spaceplane from A Quantum Murder (1998) by Peter F. Hamilton. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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'It’s smart enough to go wrong in very complicated ways, but not smart enough to help us find out what’s wrong.'
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'...like a spray of tulips mounted fanwise.'
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'You hate the whole idea that some bored drone pusher in a remote driving centre has got your life... in his hands.'
Mori3 Autonomous Shapeshifting Robot
'My homeland is being threatened by the Replicators. Thus far all attempts to stop them have failed.'
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'A robobus had just rolled up to the curb.'
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'And there in the next room by the sofa sat a familiar suitcase, that of his psychiatrist Dr. Smile.'
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'He found a barber shop which, he thought, would be good for an idle hour.'
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'Thirty rounds of fighting is tough work. Even for machines.'
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'...the excavations were already in progress, for he saw gray slopes of rubble.'
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