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"The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction. You look at the world around you, and take it apart into its components. Then you take some of those components, throw them away, and plug in different ones, start it up and see what happens."
- Frederik Pohl
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| Rocket Suit | ||
| A space suit with its own means of motive power. |
| He put on one of the Blinco rocket suits. Marvellous as they are, these space suits, with rocket equipment attached, are just about as much use as a lifebelt is to a swimmer in stormy seas — and no more.
For one thing the rocket fuel cannot last for long, and once the electron trail is exhausted the space-man is adrift, without motive power. There are other drawbacks. These rocket suits are intended only as a last emergency in the navigation of space.
 (Rocket Suit from 'Flaming Frontier' by Bernard Buley) ...Shooting out through space, with the trail of sparks streaming out behind him from his rocket equipment, he suddenly came face to face with his enemy. |
| Technovelgy from Flaming Frontier,
by Bernard Buley. Published by Scoops in 1934 Additional resources -
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Compare to the self-propulsive space suit (illustrated!) from Anthony Gilmore's 1932 story The Bluff of the Hawk, the reaction attachment from The Asteroid of Death (1931) by Neil R. Jone and the self-propelled space suit from Cavern of the Shining Pool (1937) by Leo Zagat.
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