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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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| A chamber for long term sleep between the stars. |
| Tiga-belas left a false cube in her freezebox but he hid me in the ship. |
| Technovelgy from Think Blue, Count Two,
by Cordwainer Smith. Published by Galaxy Publishing in 1962 Additional resources -
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Compare to the hibernaculum from Arthur C Clarke's 1968 novel 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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