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"I've taken some stick for passages in Altered Carbon which people complained had sickened them, but then violence should be sickening."
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It was efficient in terms of the cost of space flight:
Compare to the shuttle from Stars are Styx (1950) by Theodore Sturgeon, the shuttle ship and Winged Rocket Shuttle from Heinlein's 1951 novel Between Planets and JAL shuttle from Gibson's 1984 novel Neuromancer.
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