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"Cyberpunk worked when the Internet was in its hand-wound crystal radio phase, when you had to be a sort of hobbyist to do e-mail, and it all had a very steep learning curve. Those days are over."
- William Gibson
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| Spacehound | ||
| An experienced spaceman. |
| "I was horribly dizzy and nauseated at first, but it’s going away."
"That’s good... If you’re as well as that already, you'll be a regular spacehound in half an hour." |
| Technovelgy from Spacehounds of IPC,
by E.E. 'Doc' Smith. Published by Amazing Stories in 1931 Additional resources -
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Here's a genuine, two-fisted use of this same expression from Exit From Asteroid 60 (1940) by DL James:
For a tongue-in-cheek reference, see spacehound (beast) from Beast of Space (1941) by FE Hardart.
He was a good man. Cap McNeally. A hardened spacehound, canny and wise to the ways of the void, always on deck in moments of emergency. That’s why the IPS, the Corporation for which we work, had placed him in command of the Antigone, finest and fastest ship in the fleet.
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