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"Science and science fiction, how do you even distinguish the two?"
- Jerry Pournelle
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| Zag House | ||
| A means of implanting dreams. |
| The Zag spoke to them, and his words were dead and hollow sounds dripping from a mummified husk.
"What is it you wish? Here you live the lives you yearn for - find any escape you may seek - possess the things you dream of." "There is a stream," said Sutton. "A little creek that runs -" The light changed to green... ... ... the Zag House facade:
Live the life you missed |
| Technovelgy from Time Quarry,
by Clifford Simak. Published by Galaxy in 1950 Additional resources -
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Compare to the extra-factual memories from Philip K. Dick's 1966 story We Can Remember It For You Wholesale.
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