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"I was driving a dynamite truck when I was 14 years old in North Carolina."
- Harlan Ellison
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| Window Wavelength | ||
| Display's that provide 'views' as if they were windows. |
| Almost by reflex, she reached out and changed the wavelength of her windows. The garden faded; in its place, the city center rose by her left hand, full of crowding people, blowboats, and buildings (but she kept the sound down). She remained alone. An overcrowded world is the ideal place in which to be lonely.
The Swintons lived in one of the ritziest city-blocks, half a kilometer above the ground. Embedded in other apartments, their apartment had no windows to the outside; nobody wanted to see the overcrowded external world. |
| Technovelgy from Super-Toys Last All Summer Long,
by Brian Aldiss. Published by Harper's Bazaar in 1969 Additional resources -
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See the sky ceiling from Stanislaw Lem's Return from the Stars for the ultimate in indoor 'outdoors.'
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