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"Science Fiction is speculative fiction in which the author takes as his first postulate the real world as we know it, including all established facts and natural laws."
- Robert Heinlein
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| Magnetic Sandals | ||
| Special footgear to walk in zero-gee spacecraft. |
| Jim Davis had come into view... He bounced by, walking on magnetic sandals, looking like a comedian as he bobbed about the magnetic plates. "Hi, group," he called as he went by. |
| From The Warriors,
by Larry Niven. Published by Worlds of If in 1966 Additional resources -
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Compare magnetic sandals to magnetic-soled shoes from Murray Leinster's 1953 novel Space Tug and the magnetized boots from Manly Wade Wellman's 1941 story Lost Rocket. A slightly different technology is used in the nifty grip shoes from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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