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"I don't know why I write science fiction. The voices in my head told me to!"
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Raymond Z. Gallun uses the same expression with more details in his 1951 story Brother Worlds, published in Thrilling Wonder Stories:
Or there might be a small fault of function — improper matching of transdimensional coordinates. It could be that when we came out of overdrive at last we would be changed to monsters. The Centaur’s complicated engines needed constant fine adjustments...
We spent most of that trip dozing in our bunks. Hyperspace dulls the mind. Everyone knows that now. And old time-scales just don’t apply. Earthtime our journey took many months. But it didn’t seem anywhere near that long.
Compare to this first use of the phrase faster than light from John W. Campbell's 1931 story Islands of Space. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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