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"I do think there is a link in that in both cases, writing fiction or writing a computer program, at any given moment you're focusing on a very specific and particular thing—one word, one line of code, whatever."
- Neal Stephenson
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| Space Traffic | ||
| The movement of numbers of ships through space. |
As far as I know, the first use of "space traffic".
| Satan’s streaking vessel reached the appointed sector of space first. He nodded in silent satisfaction at Threepa’s choice of a dueling-field; the spot was a lonely one in an uncharted region, far from the normal lanes of space traffic. In all the diamond-studded blankness reproduced on his seeing-plates, Satan could detect no alien presence, not even the braggart Threepa’s pirate ship, the Vroola. |
| Technovelgy from Satan in Exile,
by Arthur William Bernal. Published by Weird Tales in 1935 Additional resources -
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Another early example, from Eando Binder's Where Eternity Ends (1939):
Here's another example from Sand Doom (1955) by Murray Leinster:
Compare to spaceways from Shambleau (1933), by C.L. Moore and of course space-lanes from Crashing Suns (1928), by Edmond Hamilton.
They watched as five Space Guard ships arrowed down from their usual position high above Yorkopolis. Obviously, they had already been notified by radio to watch for the fleeing ship. They were long, sleek craft, bristling with guns, watchdogs against illicit space traffic, smugglers, and pirates who now and then attempted daring raids.
...it was visibly a miniature of the great, now-uncovered, re-painted landing grid which was qualified to handle interstellar cargo ships and all the proper space traffic of a minerals-colony planet.
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