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"I was driving a dynamite truck when I was 14 years old in North Carolina."
- Harlan Ellison
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| Vacuum-Cupped Sandals | ||
| Used for walking in weightless environments. |
| He was an elderly fellow — a wealthy importer, I understood, in Ambelah. His dark cloak shrouded him — a tall, but bent figure, bare-headed, with the starlight gleaming on his mass of gray-white hair, long about his ears in the Venus fashion. His vacuum-cupped sandals squished on the metal-grid of the deck as he walked...
I was on my feet, but I did not offer the chair. Graeff nodded, teetering on his sandals, unsteady as though with senility. |
| Technovelgy from Voyage 13,
by Ray Cummings. Published by Astounding Science Fiction in 1938 Additional resources -
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I'm trying to imagine what these sounded like as you walked around...
Compare to the magnetic sandals from Star of Dreams (1941) by Jack Williamson; this article has references to other space footgear.
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