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"I kind of take it for granted that our great-grandchildren will regard us as a sort of precursor species. That they won't think of us as human and if we could see them, we probably wouldn't think of them as human either."
- William Gibson
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| Tube Rack | ||
| A hotel consisting of a set of stacked tube-like living spaces. |
| He and Wynne were living in a tube rack in Battersea. She could have afforded better; he insisted that they live within their means. There were about two hundred plastic sleep tubes stacked in what had once been a warehouse. Each was three meters long; the singles were a meter and a half in diameter, the doubles two. Each was furnished with a locker beneath a gel matress, a telelink terminal and a water bubbler passing for a sink. There was always a line for the showers. The toilets stank. |
| Technovelgy from Solstice,
by James Patrick Kelly. Published by Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction in 1985 Additional resources -
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Interesting take on the coffin hotels idea.
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