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"Science fiction represents the modern heresy and the cutting edge of speculative imagination as it grapples with Mysterious Time---linear or non-linear time."
- Frank Herbert
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| Radiation Shield | ||
| A clever use for the water you need to take anyway. |
| "You mean they bathed that ship in neutrons?"
"Shot it full of 'em. Just like our proton guns, only sending neutrons." "Well, why weren't we killed too?" "Water stops neutrons," Kendall said. "Figure it out." "The rocket-water tanks - all around us... that saved us?" |
| Technovelgy from The Ultimate Weapon,
by John W. Campbell. Published by Unknown in 1936 Additional resources -
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Compare to the ozone radiation shield in A Daring Trip to Mars (1932) by Max Valier.
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