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"Retire? Yeah, I want to die with my head in the typewriter. That's my idea of retirement."
- Alfred Bester
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| Suit-Radio | ||
| A means of communication between two individuals clad in space suits. |
Very early use of this term; I think the idea was used a generation earlier, but I can't find the reference.
| "But I'll catch up," he promised as he made connection between his suit-radio and the Station communicator system. |
| From Long Way,
by George O. Smith. Published by Astounding Science Fiction in 1944 Additional resources -
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