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| Asteroid Lanes | ||
| Regular routes traversed by asteroids. |
| "The regular asteroid lanes are pretty well covered by now," explained Kerry. "Even bits of debris not more than a few yards in diameter are staked out, filed and exploited. The first space rush is over. The original prospectors are drinking away their gains or they’re dead; the big outfits moved in and took them over and put exploration on a systematic, fine-comb basis. But this patch of space hasn’t been gone over much. I thought perhaps we’d run into a find." |
| Technovelgy from Jurisdiction,
by Nat Schachner. Published by Astounding Science-Fiction in 1941 Additional resources -
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Compare to asteroid lanes (blasted) from Flight of the Typhoon (1936) by Clifton B. Kruse and space-lanes from Crashing Suns (1928) by Edmond Hamilton.
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