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"This category [science fiction] excludes rocket ships that make U-turns, serpent men of Neptune that lust after human maidens, and stories by authors who flunked their Boy Scout merit badge tests in descriptive astronomy."
- Robert Heinlein
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| Orbital Retirement Hotel | ||
| A retirement home placed in low earth orbit. |
| Suddenly, hitherto unheard-of sums of money became available for investment in civilian orbital stations. By the very end of the Second Millenium there were rudimentary retirement hotels a few hundred kilometers up...
There were those who worried that this was an imprudent investment of the limited wealth of the planet... It was foolhardy, they said, to permit an elite class to emigrate to space... Hardly anyone anticipated the principal outcome, the transfer of a vivid planetary perspective to those who could do the most good. After some years, there were few nationalists left in Earth orbit. |
| Technovelgy from Contact,
by Carl Sagan. Published by Not known in 1985 Additional resources -
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Compare to the New Moon Casino Satellite from One Against the Legion (1939) by Jack Williamson, the high orbit archipelago from Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988) by William Gibson, and the Freeside orbital resort from Neuromancer (1984) also by Gibson.
Thanks to Adi for suggesting this item.
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