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"The way you write science fiction is: you sit down at your writing machine and you open your mind to the first thought that comes through."
- Frederik Pohl
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| Spaceship Garden | ||
| A fully-enclosed garden on a spaceship producing edible foodstuffs. |
This is an early reference to this idea.
| We visited the many laboratories where the master of the Maritia spent his days. We saw the gardens, flooded with artificial sunlight, planted with everything imaginable, that supplied the necessary food. |
| From The Heritage of the Earth,
by Harley S. Aldinger. Published by Amazing Stories in 1932 Additional resources -
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Compare to the asteroid garden from Asteroid of Fear (1951) by Raymond Z. Gallun, Martian sawgrass" from QRM - Interplanetary (1942) by George O. Smith and lifezones from Tides of Light (1989) by Gregory Benford
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