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"I'm a farm boy. It's very interesting; you can detect self-starting characteristics in this society and they are strongest among people who have had some kind of rural upbringing and a very impressionable stage."
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Compare to the raytron apparatus from Beyond the Stars (1928) by Ray Cummings, the scarab robot flying insect from The Scarab (1936) by Raymond Z. Gallun, the artificial eye drone from Glimpse (1938) by Manly Wade Wellman, eyes from This Moment of the Storm (1966) by Roger Zelazny, the Ultraminiature Spy-Circuit from The Unknown (1972) by Christopher Anvil, copseyes from Cloak of Anarchy (1972) by Larry Niven, the drone floater camera from Runaway (1985) by Michael Crichton, the aerostat monitor from The Diamond Age (1995) by Neal Stephenson, the loiter drone from The Algebraist (2004) by Iain Banks and the bee cam from City of Pearl (2004) by Karen Traviss. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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'It was disturbing to think of the Flatline as a construct...'
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'...he rewired the delivery robot so that it would serve him midnight snacks.'
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'On went the electric-yacht faster and still faster.'
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'...the huge vessel had spun, with a sickening lurch, through a complete half-circle, the instant the power was reversed.'
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'...he realized that it was not quite a clear lens. Speckles of colored brightness swirled and gathered in it.'
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