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Compare with the Camden speedster from Robert Heinlein's 1941 story Methuselah's Children. Charles Stross came up with a very interesting variation on this idea in his 2007 novel Halting State; see driverless drones. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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