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"It was [H.G. Wells'] adolescent fiction, his imaginative stories, that live forever - and yet are not acknowledged in literature classes as being great literature. So to hell with the academics!"
- Greg Bear
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| Crystal Cylinder Ship | ||
| A transparent space ship in the shape of a cylinder. |
| Winifred gasped, and the professor gave a grunt of
astonishment. Grant and I could only stare. Could
that be a dirigible balloon, that vast thing looming
there before us? Something scuttled across the rocks
behind me with a metallic scratching. I whirled about
and stared. Nothing could be seen in the darkness.
Abruptly a brilliant glow burst from the massive
thing before us as lights inside it were snapped on,
revealing a long, vast, glittering cylinder of transparent crystal.
It lay horizontally in the air, like a vast zeppelin with one end touching our hilltop beside the building. An entrance port in the bow stood open...
 (The cylindrical crystal ship) Everything outside was plainly visible to us through the transparent walls, even the laboratory building forward, and the night sky back of it with its paling stars. Only the inner portion of the cylinder, which extended its full length, was opaque, veiled by smoky-hued crystal. |
| Technovelgy from The Three Suns of Ev,
by Edwin K. Sloat. Published by Amazing Stories in 1933 Additional resources -
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Here's a taste of life inside a transparent ship:
Compare to the transparent spherical ship from The Emperor of the Stars (1931) by Nat Schachner (w. AL Zagat).
Crimson light that streamed back from the bow of
the space ship claimed my attention. I stared and
gasped in admiration. Lying far ahead of us in the
void was a brilliant, crimson sun that shot its fiery
streamers far into space. It was stupendous, overpowering. In what portion of the heavens could there
be such a star?
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