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"There's a poetry in the materials we use to construct our world of artifacts; it speaks of our long history as a technological species."
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![]() Henry Ellis had a way to avoid the commute that was (even in 1954, when this story was written) becoming intolerable.
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Compare to the gate from The Gate to Xoran (1931) by Hal K. Wells, the Invasion Gate for Aliens from Monsters of Mars (1931) by Edmond Hamilton, the gateway from Wanderer of Infinity (1933) by Harl Vincent, Ramsbotham Gate from Tunnel in the Sky (1955) by Robert Heinlein, the farcaster from Hyperion (1989) by Dan Simmons. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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