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"The only real way to maintain privacy is to be uninteresting. It may be that privacy is a passing fad."
- Larry Niven
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| Off-World | ||
| Not of Earth. |
This is the first use of this great phrase.
| The emperor was silent, looking at her from under his brows. After a slightly uncomfortable pause, the girl turned away.
‘I'm leaving,’ she said briefly. ‘Where?’ ‘Off-world.’ |
| From Judgement Night,
by C.L. Moore. Published by Astounding Science Fiction in 1943 Additional resources -
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Ridley Scott also uses this phrase in Blade Runner, although I don't think Philip K. Dick uses it in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep:
"A new life awaits you in the Off-world colonies. The chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure..."
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