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"People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research. I just enjoy reading the stuff, and some of it sticks in my mind and fits into the stories."
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In this possible future (around 2044), most purely mechanical devices like cars, trucks and planes are replaced by enlarged organisms combined with implanted control devices.
Jack Vance had a very similar idea in his 1964 novel The Last Castle; see the entry for power wagons.
Also, in his 1964 story A Game of Unchance, Philip K. Dick describes a control harness.
See also the entry for the organic-based robot cat from The Cat and the King by Raymond F. Jones, published by Astounding Science Fiction in 1946:
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'The car had no steering wheel, and no one drove!'
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