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"...the space defense initiative drove the USSR bankrupt, and it originated at my house in Tarzana."
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From Quarry (1956) by Kenneth Bulmer:
See variations on this idea in Larry Niven's bubble cars from World out of Time (1976) or the tin cabbie from James Blish's 1957 novel Cities in Flight. A more recent take can be found in Alan Dean Foster's 2006 novel Sagramanda; see the automated taxi. Comment/Join this discussion ( 2 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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