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"I've taken some stick for passages in Altered Carbon which people complained had sickened them, but then violence should be sickening."
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Compare to the more personal gravity web from Frank Herbert's 1969 novel Whipping Star, as well as cavorite from the 1901 novel The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells, the gravity-neutralizing disks from Edmond Hamilton's 1937 short story Fessenden's Worlds (which are for the lab) and the sleeping plates from Larry Niven's 1966 novella Neutron Star (which are for the bedroom). Also, the momentum screen from Completely Automatic, a 1941 story by Theodore Sturgeon. Comment/Join this discussion ( 2 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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