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" I sometimes suspect that we're seeing something in the Internet as significant as the birth of cities. It's really something new, it's a new kind of civilization."
- William Gibson
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| Roving Bomb | ||
| Special zero-gee guided bomb. |
| "Roving bombs ... Each with propulsion equipment, to be launched and guided by radio beams, even around corners - and exploded only by a deliberate change of power quality." |
| From Lost Rocket,
by Manly Wade Wellman. Published by Astounding Science-Fiction in 1941 Additional resources -
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