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"[Science fiction] is the only kind of writing that allows you to look at the world we live in and change one piece at a time."
- Frederik Pohl
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| Artibase | ||
| An artificial asteroid base between planets. |
| "We hung' on there, subsurface,
down under the Copernicus crater,
while they slammed their C-missiles
into us. We held out maybe five
years. Then they started landing.
Me and those still left took off in
high-speed attack torpedoes. Set up
pirate bases among the outer planets." Unger twitched restlessly.
I hate to talk about that part. Defeat, the end of everything. Why
do you ask me? I helped build 3-4-9-5, the best artibase of the lot. Between Uranus and Neptune. Then
I retired again. Until the dirty rats
slid in and leisurely blew it to bits.
Fifty thousand men, women, kids.
The whole colony..."
The red-rimmed eye surveyed the luxurious office. "Didn't know about this. You people sure done a good job fixing-up your artibase. Looks almost like I remember the real Earth. A little too fast and bright; not so peaceful as Earth really was. But you even got the smell of the air the same." |
| Technovelgy from War Veteran,
by Philip K. Dick. Published by If in 1955 Additional resources -
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Dick adds:
"Unger thinks this is an artificial
satellite someplace between Uranus
and Neptune. A reconstruction of
a small part of New York - a few
thousand people and machines under a plastic dome.
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