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"As the rate of technological development speeds up, the gap between science fiction and what we’re living now is getting narrower all the time."
- Richard Morgan
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| Antigravity | ||
| A force opposed to gravity. |
| But the antigravity apparatus will have to be capable of generating a greater repulsive force than is required for ordinary interplanetary conditions. |
| From The Vanguard of Neptune,
by J.M. Walsh. Published by Wonder Stories in 1932 Additional resources -
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Note that the idea of a force that acts in opposition to gravity can be found in the description of "apergy" found in Percy Greg's 1880 novel Across the Zodiac:
The use of antigravity is also seen in the spindizzy from James Blish's 1957 novel Cities in Flight.
" I needed a repulsion which would act like gravitation through an indefinite distance and in a void..."
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