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"In science fiction one can say a great many things that are unpalatable, … because it's expressed as science fiction you can slip it past their defenses."
- Frederik Pohl
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| Extradimensional | ||
| From another dimension. |
Probably first use of this term in science fiction.
| Thus Duquesne, not even dreaming what an incredibly inconceivable distance from the Galaxy Seaton was to attain, nor what depths of extradimensional space Seaton was to traverse before they were again to stand face to face. |
| Technovelgy from Skylark of Valeron,
by E.E. 'Doc' Smith. Published by Astounding in 1934 Additional resources -
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'Chris, the City Fathers are not interested in your welfare; I suppose you know that. They're interested in only one thing: the survival of the city.'
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'It diverts integers of the data, the fundamental message-units, so that they no longer agree.'
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'Books were just a commodity that had to be produced, like jam or bootlaces.'
