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"I believe in limited government, and the 20th century has been the century of government. The data is uniform. The government has failed at every single task it has set out to do, with the exception of waging war."
- Bart Kosko
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| Bioform House | ||
| A house grown from a bioengineered plant. |
| The house was a small, six-room pumpkin that had been grown on the lot that spring. Once it had reached the proper size, it had been cut from its stem, levered onto a concrete foundation, and allowed to dry. Then workers had cut holes, sprayed the shell with sealants and preservatives, and installed doors, windows, insulation, interior walls, plumbing and appliances.
There were three other pumpkin houses on the block... |
| Technovelgy from Sparrowhawk,
by Thomas A. Easton. Published by Ace Books in 1990 Additional resources -
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A standard joke in the midwest is to refer to the 'McMansions" that are replacing farmland as "pumpkin houses" since they seem to grow about one per acre. Pumpkins require a bit more space than most of the crops you might plant.
If you liked these, you will certainly like the house trees, from Jack Vance's cool The Houses of Iszm, a 1954 novel.
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