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"I was driving a dynamite truck when I was 14 years old in North Carolina."
- Harlan Ellison
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| Tourist Rocket | ||
| A cheap, unpleasant way to do space travel. |
Leave it to Pohl and Kornbluth to think about space flight when it is so common, it is discounted - and has an unpleasant economy class.
| It wasn't a pleasant trip; it was a miserable trip on a miserable, undersized tourist rocket. We flew low, and there were prism windows at all seats, which never fail to make me airsick. |
| From The Space Merchants,
by Frederik Pohl (w/CM Kornbluth). Published by St. Martin's Press in 1952 Additional resources -
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Compare to the space-liner from Jack Williamson's 1931 novel Twelve Hours To Live.
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