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"Why does a creative person create? It's a type of compulsion. I like to explore new ideas."
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![]() This is probably the first use of this term.
This helpful word found itself into many breezy statements about space. For example, this usage in The Impossible World (1939) by Eando Binder:
Here's another example from Jurisdiction (1941), by Nat Schachner:
From Sunward Flight (1943) by Leo Zagat:
From The Cavern of the Shining Pool (1943) by Leo Zagat:
From Contagion (1950) by Katherine MacLean:
Compare to the space-lanes from Crashing Suns, the 1928 classic by Edmond Hamilton and to space traffic from Satan in Exile (1935) by Arthur William Bernal. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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