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"If I had to get a new Ph.D. now, I'd get it in polymer engineering - the manipulation of matter."
- Bart Kosko
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| Gold-Fish-Bowl World | ||
| An artificial water planet. |
| One very small and rather uncommon kind of artificial world consisted almost wholly of water. It was like a titanic bowl of gold-fish. Beneath its transparent shell, studded with rocket-machinery and interplanetary docks, lay a spherical ocean, crossed by structural girders, and constantly impregnated with oxygen. A small solid core represented the sea bottom...
These 'gold-fish-bowl' worlds turned out to be transitional. |
| From Star Maker,
by Olaf Stapledon. Published by Methuen in 1937 Additional resources -
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