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"Another reason why privacy could be just a passing fad, terrorism is going to get too good. [1997]"
- Larry Niven
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| Space Madness | ||
| The monotony of space travel could drive you crazy. |
| At length they longed intensely for a change. They felt themselves in prison... and finally all their desire was directed at bursting the narrow walls of the ship. In an attack of such space madness the engineer had once come near beating with his fists on the switchboard of the levers and smashing the glass coverings of the delicate indicating apparatus. |
| Technovelgy from A Daring Trip To Mars,
by Max Valier. Published by Wonder Stories in 1931 Additional resources -
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Compare to space-sick from Ralph 124c 41 + (1911) by Hugo Gernsback, moon-terror from Star of Dreams (1941) by Jack Williamson, Space Scurvy (Kenoalgia) from Sacred Martian Pig (1949) by Margaret Saint Clair, space phobia from Let 'em Breathe Space!(1953) by Lester del Rey and desubstantiation effect from Death's End (2010) by Cixin Liu.
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