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- Neal Stephenson
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| Air Speedster | ||
| Highly maneuverable air vehicle for hunting. |
| In the ancient days when the Galactic Empire had embraced the Galaxy, and Anacreon had
been the richest of the prefects of the Periphery, more than one emperor had visited the
Viceregal Palace in state. And not one had left without at least one effort to pit his skill with air
speedster and needle gun against the feathered flying fortress they call the Nyakbird...
you should have been with us today, uncle. We flushed one in the wilds of Sarnia that was a monster. And game as they come. We had it out for two hours over at least seventy square miles of ground. And then I got to Sunwards – he was motioning graphically, as though he were once more in his speedster –"and dived torque-wise. Caught him on the rise just under the left wing at quarters. It maddened him and he canted athwart. I took his dare and veered a-left, waiting for the plummet. Sure enough, down he came. He was within wing-beat before I moved and then –" "Lepold!" "Well!– I got him." |
| Technovelgy from Foundation,
by Isaac Asimov. Published by Doubleday in 1951 Additional resources -
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Compare to rocket polo from Ra for the Rajah (1938) by John Victor Peterson.
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