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"...being predictive, being right about the future, is not the point of any given story or novel. The point is about exploring as wide a range of possibilities as possible."
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Compare to the electrical tether from Garrett P. Serviss's 1898 novel Edison's Conquest of Mars, the Personal Jet Thrust from Robert Heinlein's 1948 novel Space Cadet and the broomstick from Arthur C. Clarke's 1952 novel Islands in the Sky.
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