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"By the time I can take people out to where Hubble is looking, they won't be human anymore, by a long way."
- Larry Niven
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| Stratoyacht | ||
| A privately-owned pleasure craft capable of attaining orbit. |
| "But I was hoping for a chat with Master—Look here," Bardin interrupted himself. "Why don't you three join me aboard my stratoyacht, the Icarus, and hop over to Skyland and have dinner with me there?"
I blinked. From what I had heard of the resort atop Pikes Peak, dinner there was the experience of a lifetime—and one within reach only of the very rich. |
| Technovelgy from Sunward Flight,
by Leo Zagat. Published by Super Science Stories in 1943 Additional resources -
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Compare to the Joy-Boat Junior from Methuselah's Children (1941) by Robert Heinlein.
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