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"Science Fiction is speculative fiction in which the author takes as his first postulate the real world as we know it, including all established facts and natural laws."
- Robert Heinlein
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| Sleep Tube | ||
| A short, cylindrical living space. |
This is a variation on the coffin hotel idea, which predates their use in cyberpunk. The perfect camping accoutrement when visiting Stonehenge.
| Each [tube] was three meters long; the singles were a meter and a half in diameter, the doubles two. Each was furnished with a locker beneath a gel matress, a telelink terminal and a water bubbler passing for a sink...
Wynne and Tod had their sleep tube shipped from the rack in Battersea to Stonhenge for the five-day festival. It and a thousand others lay near the old car park across the A360 from the dome that now protected the stones. The tubes looked like giant Soar capsules scattered in the grass. |
| From Solstice,
by James Patrick Kelly. Published by Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction in 1985 Additional resources -
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