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Asimov gives you a few more details about this idea. In his 1988 novel Prelude to Foundation, he writes:
Compare to the pneumatic tube station from Exiles of the Moon (1931) by Schachner and Zagat, the
submarine tube from An Express of the Future (1895) by Jules Verne, the
sub-Atlantic tube from Ralph 124c 41 + (1911) by Hugo Gernsback, the
vacutubes from Double Star (1956) by Robert Heinlein and the public tubes from The Houses of Iszm (1954) by Jack Vance. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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