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"...being predictive, being right about the future, is not the point of any given story or novel. The point is about exploring as wide a range of possibilities as possible."
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![]() Not the first use of contragravity (or contra-gravity), which has been around for quite a while; read on.
The word itself was used in the nineteenth century. Here's a quote from The Autobiography of Eric Russel (1857):
Compare to the anti-gravity belt from Armageddon: 2419 A.D., by Philip Frances Nowlan. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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'The wings were at full spread-rest, their delicate metal interleavings extended.'
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'I shall introduce myself. I am R. Daneel Olivaw... I am a robot. Were you not told?'
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