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"I forged a concept which is relatively simple and possibly unique in theology, and that is, the irrational is the primordial stratum of the universe."
- Philip K. Dick
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| Pocket-Planet | ||
| An asteroid. |
An early use of this term in science fiction.
| And he would fall with the same near-weightlessness, would fairly drift through the airless void that surrounded this pocket-planet. |
| Technovelgy from The Duel on the Asteroid,
by P. Schuyler Miller (w/D. McDermott). Published by Wonder Stories in 1932 Additional resources -
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This term was used to describe the moons of Mars in the 1880's, in various scientific papers. It was used to describe the Earth in spiritual literature of the 1840's.
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