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"In 1977, it took about eight months for a slightly faster more refined mechanism to put punk in the window of Holt Renfrew. It's gotten faster ever since."
- William Gibson
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| Centipede | ||
| Perfect craft for crawling through slushy, frozen lakes - on Titan. |
| Ishida glides past me. "Maybe we'll ride centipede together," she says. I can see it. A great big machine, bronze-colored and round-headed, big slit-port for an eye, with a thick, muscular body and a long crawling tail - machine or monster? |
| Technovelgy from Killing Titan,
by Greg Bear. Published by Orbit in 2015 Additional resources -
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Compare to the ships with legs from Buck Rogers: 2430 AD (1929) by Nowlan and Calkin, the centipede-machine from Monsters of Mars (1931) by Edmond Hamilton, the robass from The Quest for Saint Aquin (1951) by Anthony Boucher and the walking fort from The Killing Machine (1964) by Jack Vance.
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