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"Science fiction operates a little bit like science itself, in principle. You've got thousands of people exploring ideas, putting forth their own hypotheses. Most of them are dead wrong; a few stand the test of time; everything looks kind of quaint in hind"
- Peter Watts
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| Robot Fish | ||
| A mechanical fish. |
As far as I know, this is the first instance of this phrase in science fiction.
| The waves was twinklin’ in the sunshine and there was flyin’ fish around the bow thick as crickets. Once one of ’em jumped too high and landed on deck. I went to throw it back but then I seen it was busted open an’ there was wires and things sticking out of the hole. A robot fish, who’d of thought it? But there was real ones too! |
| Technovelgy from At Kokomo Joe's,
by Brooke Stauffer. Published by Aboriginal Science Fiction in 1989 Additional resources -
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Compare to these other underwater robots, Wabbler From The Wabbler (1942) by Murray Leinster and the robotic Eel from Re:Set by Susan Beetlestone. See also the robot fish from Atom Drive (1956) by Charles Fortenay.
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