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"[Science fiction is] nightmares and visions, always outlined by the barely possible."
- Gregory Benford
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| Mal de Void | ||
| Literally, space sick. |
| Tom Bennington laughed. He was an old-timer, and he said in a reminiscent tone: “I remember when we used to do that on manual. There were as many cases of mal de void during cathode change as during turnover. Autopilots are the nuts — look! We’re about to swing right now, and I’ll bet a fiver that the folks below won’t know a thing about it.” |
| Technovelgy from Off the Beam,
by George O. Smith. Published by Astounding Science Fiction in 1944 Additional resources -
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Compare to space-sick from Ralph 124c 41 + (1911) by Hugo Gernsback, to space madness from A Daring Trip to Mars (1931) by Max Valier, moon-terror from Star of Dreams (1941) by Jack Williamson, gravitation paralysis from The World With A Thousand Moons (1942) by Edmond Hamilton, Space Scurvy (Kenoalgia) from Sacred Martian Pig (1949) by Margaret Saint Clair and space phobia from Let 'em Breathe Space! (1953) by Lester del Rey.
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