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"I wrote many novels which … contained the element of the projected collective unconscious, which made them simply incomprehensible to anyone who read them, because they required the reader to accept my premise that each of us lives in a unique world."
- Philip K. Dick
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| Aerocar | ||
| A personal flying vehicle. |
This is (as far as I know) the first use of the word "aerocar."
| He was now developing the film in his room at the Flash office, and the aerocar which had brought him was still outside the large bay window swinging gently to and fro at its moorings in the summer breeze. |
| Technovelgy from The Abduction of Alexandra Seine,
by Fred C. Smale. Published by Not Known in 1900 Additional resources -
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At the time this book was written, there were neither standardized cars nor airplanes.
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