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"Generally, the human race avoids doing anything radical until forced into it."
- Frederik Pohl
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| Skydozer | ||
| Small spacecraft used to remove orbital debris. |
| Marge’s brother, Danny, had been flying a Skydozer, towing space junk and dead satellites out of equatorial orbit to clear a path for the Moravec. He’d been blown up by a booby trap in a dormant spy satellite. Skydozers were tough ships, and the charge had only been a kiloton or less, but it left Danny with no legs or eyes, a kid who used to walk the trout streams twelve hours a day all summer. Tom remembered when they’d fitted out his floating wheelchair with thrusters and sonar, and turned him loose on an easy stretch of the Au Sable below Grayling. |
| Technovelgy from A Little Further Up The Fox...,
by George M. Ewing. Published by Asimov's Science Fiction in 1987 Additional resources -
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Compare to Operation Cleanup from The Fountains of Paradise (1978) by Arthur C. Clarke.
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