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"Science fiction and science have always danced around each other. Science fiction is the subconscious of science."
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Of course, the word "microcosm" long predated the story, but this is an early use of the 'miniature universe" idea.
“I still can hardly believe — ” Felton muttered, and then he heard the switch click.
The next moment the interior of the sphere was no longer dark and empty, but held a countless number of groups of tiny points of light, infinitesimal little galaxies of suns exactly reproducing the mighty galaxies of the greater cosmos!
They floated in the darkness of the sphere’s interior, those galaxies, like diminutive clouds of sparks. These little galaxies were mostly spiral in shape, like those of the cosmos, and though they were so tiny as to be hardly visible, there were vast numbers of them, separated from each other by proportionately immense distances.
Compare to the miniature universe in Hamilton's classic 1937 story Fessenden's Worlds, and to Theodore Sturgeon's famous 1941 short story Microcosmic God. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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