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"It wasn't until I was past forty that it bacame clear that I was going to be quote, successful, unquote."
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This is an early instance of this phrase in Dick's work.
Dick expands on the idea in Now Wait For Last Year, published in 1966.
Compare this to the autocab from Heinlein's 1951 novel Between Planets and the Tin Cabbie from James Blish's 1957 Cities in Flight.
The earliest mention I know about is the driverless taxi from The Living Machine (1935) by David H. Keller. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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