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"did I had an extremely expensive wife - she would see a new car that she liked and just buy it... under California law I was bound to buy her debts. I think I turned out 16 novels in five years."
- Philip K. Dick
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| Jumpship | ||
| A spaceship capable of making interstellar jumps, that is, it could move over vast distances instantaneously. |
As far as I know, the first use of this term, used by a number of different authors.
| On a Navy transport, a full Lieutenant IBMan would be in charge of SolNav only, with two petty officers under him, both qualified to handle maintenance, and one at least with a Navy rating, capable of relieving him on duty at the control board during the five or twelve or twenty hours it might take to navigate a jump-ship in or out of the obstacle course of clutter and junk and planets and orbits of any given System. |
| Technovelgy from The Lady Was A Tramp,
by Rose Sharon. Published by Venture Science Fiction in 1957 Additional resources -
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Be sure to read the article for jump from Invaders from the Infinite (1932) by John W. Campbell.
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