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"Tokyo homeless people reiterate the whole nature of living in Tokyo in cardboard boxes, they're only slightly smaller than Tokyo apartments, and they have almost as many consumer goods. It's a nightmare of boxes within boxes."
- William Gibson
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| Pocket Universe | ||
| A created, separate space within the normal space of the universe. |
A unique, early use of this term and idea.
| He'd evidently put aside the small contrivance I'd last seen him working on, and he'd made a gadget—a diamagnet or whatever it ought to be called—a thing that closed space around itself in a pocket universe when it was turned on—that was extendible. |
| From Pocket Universes,
by Murray Leinster. Published by Thrilling Wonder Stories in 1946 Additional resources -
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This term was used in a spiritual sense in the late nineteenth century.
Compare to the worldcraft bubbles from Philip K Dick's The Trouble With Bubbles (1953).
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