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"I've been very obsessive about writing science fiction for far too many years. Anyone with an ounce of sense would have given up years ago."
- Charles Stross
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| Magnetized Cloth Pajamas | ||
| Sleeping in zero gee - just like on Earth! |
This is a unique solution to an age-old problem (for science fiction writers, anyway).
| AS they worked Mrs. Blaiskell commented on various aspects of the room. “That bed now ! Earl wasn’t satisfied with sleeping under a saddleband - like the rest of us, no ! He wears pajamas of magnetized cloth, and that weights him against the cushion almost as if he lived on Earth. |
| Technovelgy from Abercrombie Station,
by Jack Vance. Published by Thrilling Wonder Stories in 1952 Additional resources -
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'The crawling... object was V-Stephen's surgeon-hand...'
'Joe got out the gravity-simulator harnesses...'
'You couldn't have the capstone without the pyramid to hold it up.'
'the unobtrusive inspections with tiny remote-cast snoopers...'
I'm hoping that this procedure becomes a normal part of medical practice!
'... nothing was perfected until M. Pantalon announced the completion of his automatic valet.'
'...its streets were of remarkable width, with few or no buildings so high as mosques, churches, State-offices, or palaces in Tellurian cities.'
