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"The first thing that's wrong with being a science-fiction writer today is that the present has caught up with the future and surpassed it."
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![]() After a day of useless work, Joe Fernwright trudged back to a location that he referred to with the word "home."
This device required another component to be fully functional; see the entry for psycho-lease encephalic gadget.
Compare to Robert Heinlein's simulacrum window from Tunnel in the Sky (1955), the sky ceiling from the 1961 novel Return From The Stars by Stanislaw Lem and the window wavelength from the 1969 novel Super-Toys Last All Summer Long by Brian Aldiss. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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