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"Everything starts as somebody's daydream. And, when you're daydreaming, it is science fiction. It's when you start work out how you put it together, true science fiction becomes real science."
- Larry Niven
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| Artigraft | ||
| Artificial skin graft. |
| "How's your niece?" Verrick asked.
"She'll be alright," Cartwright said... "It was her face Eleanor struck for?" "They can fix her up with artigraft. It didn't get to her eyes; mostly her skin and hair..." |
| Technovelgy from Solar Lottery,
by Philip K. Dick. Published by Ace Books in 1955 Additional resources -
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