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"it slowly dawned on me that the landscape of science is maybe what interests people a great deal in science fiction."
- Gregory Benford
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| Depilatory Soap | ||
| A labor-saving combination of soap and a agent that removes hair. |
| I rubbed the depilatory soap over my face and rinsed it with the trickle from the fresh-water tap. Wasteful, of course, but I could afford the cost, and salt water always leaves my face itchy. |
| From Gravy Planet,
by Frederik Pohl (w/CM Kornbluth). Published by Galaxy in 1952 Additional resources -
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Compare to the capillotomer from Beyond This Horizon (1942) by Robert Heinlein and the 'fresher from Methuselah's Children (1941) by Robert Heinlein
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