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"I feel like I've been very fortunate in that I've stuck like a burr to the dog-leg of the next generation of nerdism. I've been carried into the XXIth century on Bill Gates' pants-cuff."
- William Gibson
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| Dirtside | ||
| The surface of a planet. |
Very early use of this phrase.
| Sam stopped a passing engineer's mate. "Hey, shipmate - we're fresh caught. Where's the crew's mess?
"Clockwise about eighty and inboard, this deck." He looked them over. "Fresh caught, eh? Well, you'll find out." "Like that, huh?" "Worse. A madhouse squared. If I wasn't married, I'd 'a' stayed dirtside." |
| From Starman Jones,
by Robert Heinlein. Published by Scribners in 1953 Additional resources -
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This is a common phrase in science fiction. Here's another example, from Niven and Pournelle's Oath of Fealty:
Compare to Farside from A Fall of Mooniest (1961) by Arthur C. Clarke.
"Sinclair wants to do some outside work while we're dirtside." He took out his pocket computer and wrote quickly with the attached stylus.
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