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"Everything starts as somebody's daydream. And, when you're daydreaming, it is science fiction. It's when you start work out how you put it together, true science fiction becomes real science."
- Larry Niven
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| A compact vehicle for planetary surfaces - like Mercury. |
| We had four Bugs, three of them the light pillow-tire models, with special lead-cooled cut-in engines when the heat set in...
I could see the Major and McIvers crawling out behind me, their pillow tires taking the rugged floor of the gorge smoothly... Over everything was gray dust - silicates and salts, pumice and limestone and granite ash, filling crevices and declivities - offering a soft, treacherous surface for the Bug's pillow tires.
 (The Bug from Brightside Crossing
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