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"I am first of all not a science fiction writer … I write, I suppose, what the Latin Americans call magic realism."
- Harlan Ellison
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| Moon Weaponized | ||
| A military application of moons, planetoids and asteroids; dropping them from space. |
 (Buck Rogers: the rocket ship gets in position)
 (Buck Rogers: the rocket ship pushes a moon)
 (Buck Rogers: the moon spirals in)
 (The moon becomes incandescent as it hits Mars' atmosphere)
 (Then, with a crash that shook the entire planet, it struck!) |
| Technovelgy from Buck Rogers, 2430 AD,
by Philip Nowlan (w/D. Calkins). Published by Not Known in 1929 Additional resources -
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