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![]() Early reference to the asteroid prison idea.
Compare to the asteroid prison from One Against the Legion (1939) by Jack Williamson, the Moon as prison from The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966) by Robert Heinlein, zero-time jail from A World Out of Time (1976) by Larry Niven, Brainlock from Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988) by William Gibson and the orbital penal colony from Tekwar (1989) by William Shatner. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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