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"I kind of take it for granted that our great-grandchildren will regard us as a sort of precursor species. That they won't think of us as human and if we could see them, we probably wouldn't think of them as human either."
- William Gibson
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| Individual Flyer | ||
| Personal antigravity and wing unit. |
| GREG FENNEL dropped to the sidewalk. His toes rapped upon the fused silica, then his gravity repulsor died and his heels settled firmly. He twisted his belt buckle. Magnetic wing locks snapped open. The short wing rolled into a small box upon his shoulders. In a few seconds Greg had become a pedestrian...
GREG ALLOWED the sinuous arms of one of the Venusians to travel over his body. The needle pistol was taken. So were the two extra pellets of ammunition. He even allowed his individual flyer to be lifted from his shoulders. |
| Technovelgy from Asteroid Pirates,
by Royal W. Heckman. Published by Astounding Science Fiction in 1938 Additional resources -
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Compare to the jump harness from Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) by Robert Heinlein and the copter harness from The Star Beast (1954) also by Heinlein.
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