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"The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer. Day after month after year after story after book."
- Harlan Ellison
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| Space Buoy | ||
| A marker in space. |
| ...I saw that a little ahead of our own ship-dot there hung stationary on the chart another dot, one not of black but of red. I recognized it as one of the great space-buoys hung in space to mark the positions of the mighty ether-currents, these maelstroms had been marked for all space-navigators by placing near each a special spaceship, or buoy, which automatically and without crew kept its position, showing as a red dot on all space-charts to warn passing ships of the maelstrom's position. |
| From Crashing Suns,
by Edmond Hamilton. Published by Popular Fiction Publishing Co. in 1928 Additional resources -
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Compare to the space beacon from George O. Smith's 1952 novel Troubled Star and the hyperspace beacon from Harry Harrison's 1959 short story The Repairman.
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