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"I just can't be politic. I never learned how to do that and I don't like doing that. I think it's false."
- Harlan Ellison
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| Spaceways | ||
| A set route though space. |
| 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’. |
| 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; here's another example from Jurisdiction, by Nat Schachner:
Compare to the space-lanes from Crashing Suns, the 1928 classic by Edmond Hamilton.
The Erebus was the luxury liner of the spaceways.
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