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"The SF approach: an awareness that things could have been different, that this is one of many possible worlds, that if you came to this world from some other planet, this would be a science fiction world."
- Neal Stephenson
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| Centipede | ||
| Perfect craft for crawling through slushy, frozen lakes - on Titan. |
| Ishida glides past me. "Maybe we'll ride centipede together," she says. I can see it. A great big machine, bronze-colored and round-headed, big slit-port for an eye, with a thick, muscular body and a long crawling tail - machine or monster? |
| From Killing Titan,
by Greg Bear. Published by Orbit in 2015 Additional resources -
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Compare to the ships with legs from Buck Rogers: 2430 AD (1929) by Nowlan and Calkin, the centipede-machine from Monsters of Mars (1931) by Edmond Hamilton, the robass from The Quest for Saint Aquin (1951) by Anthony Boucher and the walking fort from The Killing Machine (1964) by Jack Vance.
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