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"In 1970 I found little difficulty staying 30 years ahead of the man in the street, and now I find it difficult to stay 18 months ahead of the man on the street."
- Vernor Vinge

Warp-Speed  
  Faster than light spaceships.  

Travel in “free” Space, the ordinary three-dimensional kind, was measured in miles; warp-travel was measured in parsecs. “Free” speed, with old-fashioned fuel-eating jets which were supposed to be carried as emergency power units only, was forty thousand miles a second it best — warp-speed, depending on the dimension you used, had a top of better than a thousand light-years a minute. Leaving your warp to poke around in ordinary three-dimensional Space on jets was like leaving your surface-car parked on a speedway to hike up a side-road on foot. You had to get back to the speedway to get home.
Technovelgy from Yachting Party, by Fox B. Holden.
Published by Imagination in 1952
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Compare to spacewarp drive from What Mad Universe (1949) by Frederic Brown and space warp from Redmask of the Outlands (1934) by Nat Schachner.

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