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"I've come across more and more people who've actually tried reading science fiction and can't make it make sense."
- Samuel R. Delany
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| Pocket Dome | ||
| Handy easy-to-set-up shelter. |
Nothing like a handy, easy to set-up shelter.
| They set up the pocket dome in the courtyard, at the far end, away from the graves. It was simple enough, just a matter of pulling the trigger and watching it inflate itself, and then connecting water and air tanks, installing power cells, and turning it on. Unlike the e-suits, it couldn't subsist on vacuum energy alone, but required a direct power source. |
| Technovelgy from Chindi,
by Jack McDevitt. Published by Ace Books in 2002 Additional resources -
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Take a look at the original (from the standpoint of space technology) - the Igloo Inflatable Moon Habitat from Arthur C. Clarke's 1961 story A Fall of Moondust.
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