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"it slowly dawned on me that the landscape of science is maybe what interests people a great deal in science fiction."
- Gregory Benford
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| Space Tunnel | ||
| An enclosed gang plank extended between space ships. |
| “I’m Hal Bailey, owner of Mars. If that doesn’t convey anything try ‘Excellent Friend.’ ” “You’re — you’re him are you?” He heard her gasp. “Excuse me! I can explain this . . . Come on over.” She opened her ship’s outer lock. Hal lowered his space-tunnel into position, crossed into the girl’s control room.* The place was littered with spectrometers, charts, maps, sextants, and Martian desert drawings... She broke the magnetic contact holding the tunnel to Hal’s ship and it folded back in place. * Space Tunnel — A space “gang plank” entirely inclosed, extending from airlock to airlock of adjoining ships— folding up concertinawise when not in use. — Ed. |
| Technovelgy from The Man Who Bought Mars,
by Polton Cross. Published by Fantastic Adventures in 1941 Additional resources -
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Compare to the tubular space-gangway from The Star Roamers (1933) by Edmond Hamilton.
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