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"Science and science fiction, how do you even distinguish the two?"
- Jerry Pournelle
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| Spaceways | ||
| A set route though space. |
This is probably the first use of this term.
| He heard the gossip of the spaceways, news from a dozen planets of a thousand different events; he heard the latest joke about the Venusian Emperor and the latest report on the Chino-Aryan war and the latest song hot from the lips of Rose Robertson, whom every man on the civilized planets adored as ‘the Georgia Rose’. |
| Technovelgy from Shambleau,
by C.L. Moore. Published by Weird Tales in 1933 Additional resources -
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This helpful word found itself into many breezy statements about space. For example, this usage in The Impossible World (1939) by Eando Binder:
Here's another example from Jurisdiction (1941), by Nat Schachner:
From Sunward Flight (1943) by Leo Zagat:
From The Cavern of the Shining Pool (1943) by Leo Zagat:
From Contagion (1950) by Katherine MacLean:
Compare to the space-lanes from Crashing Suns, the 1928 classic by Edmond Hamilton and to space traffic from Satan in Exile (1935) by Arthur William Bernal.
Shelton was shaking his head. It always hurt to hear of brave men meeting doom out in the spaceways — young, spirited men who had much to live for. Some of them were important, too; scientists, technicians. Now they were martyrs to mankind’s steady march toward complete dominion of the Solar System.
The Erebus was the luxury liner of the spaceways.
...more than one rocketeer has been known to crack up, mentally, on the spaceways. The grueling flights through blackness are murderous.
...they had leaped to send warning of the one unconquered menace that harried the spaceways. An ether eddy!
Therefore spaceways and interplanetary health law demanded that ship equipment for guarding against disease be totally mechanical in operation, rapid and efficient.
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