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"[Science fiction is] nightmares and visions, always outlined by the barely possible."
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The images are shown on a view-plate:
He uses this idea again in 1943, with a bit more detail:
A star was missing, out of Draco.
"I see. Thuban's blotted out."
"Has been for the last five minutes."
"So there's a meteor moving along the straight line between us, either away from, or following us."
"Following us." Rade's voice was so tense it thrummed. "And not a meteor. Take a look through the electelscope."
Karsdale's remarkable application of electronics to optics that in the space of a tube no larger than a man's arm reduces the apparent distance of an object to one-tenth the actual, was already switched in, but the thing that obscured Thuban must have moved since Rade focused it. I twirled thumbscrews until I got it clear again.
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