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"The way you write science fiction is: you sit down at your writing machine and you open your mind to the first thought that comes through."
- Frederik Pohl
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| Ostler Insulation Beam | ||
| A beam of energy stretching from one planet to another that protects space craft from radiation. |
| They're saying Korna Laboratories has discovered a new method of insulating light ships against the radiations of free space, a method that will make the Spatial Fleet independent of Earth's Ostler Beam. |
| Technovelgy from The Radium World,
by Frank K. Kelly. Published by Wonder Stories in 1932 Additional resources -
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Here's a bit more explanation:
The stars burned coldly in a dark back-drop of absolute black that was tinged very faintly with the soft rose radiation of the Earth-Mars Insulation Beam; Earth was a round green ball in the infinite distances behind; Mars a study in scarlet swimming in the vast space ahead... He always wondered what might happen if that impervious Beam-Tunnel were to falter for an instant - and let the ship go driving blindly unprotected into the living maelstrom of free space.
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