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"it slowly dawned on me that the landscape of science is maybe what interests people a great deal in science fiction."
- Gregory Benford
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| Moon Hopper | ||
| A jet-powered single-person vehicle for the Moon. |
| At the moment there was some need for a good, reliable one-man conveyance for the Moon. Wheeled vehicles required monstrous balloon tires to keep from sinking into the pumice-like dust. Tracked vehicles were equally cumbersome. But SPI had developed a neat little reaction vehicle they were thinking of calling the Moon Hopper. It looked like a sure thing. There had been similar gadgets tried before, and others would come along in the future, but the Moon Hopper was the best thing to date. It was Joe’s problem to grab the market and grab it fast, because there just wasn’t room enough at present for more than one such product.
 (Moon Hopper from 'Rider in the Sky' by Raymond F. Jones) |
| Technovelgy from Rider in the Sky,
by Raymond F. Jones. Published by Thrilling Science Fiction in 1973 Additional resources -
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(Moon Hopper from 'Rider in the Sky' by Raymond F. Jones)
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'From a distance it could resolve the cosmic rays reflected from various substances.'
'The answer to the dumb student's prayer.'
'He had travelled the space-lanes of the solar system for the greater part of his life...'
'The dinner was excellent. It was completely vegetarian — grown in specially prepared gardens in this Moon base...'
'Telepaths had their sensitiveness enlarged to an immense range by the pin-sets, which were telepathic amplifiers adapted to the mammal mind.'
'It was a relief to enter one of the comfortable autos, whisper a direction down the tube, and just know that you would be taken to your destination in the quickest, safest, and cheapest manner.'
'But he didn't get very far with it before another noise in his ear radio scattered his thoughts. George winced...'
'The vast spinning sphere of Factory in the Sky loomed above and ahead of us, gleaming white against the unfathomable jet depths of surrounding space.'
'And if it doesn’t work,' inquired Lazarus, 'what does that make us? Sunspots?'
