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"The first thing that's wrong with being a science-fiction writer today is that the present has caught up with the future and surpassed it."
- Peter Watts
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| Downtime | ||
| Traveling back in time. |
As far as I know, the first use of this word.
| "You can see it’s a big vortex. His movement across the stream must have caused about a four century twister. Now two centuries downtime there are still atomic wars. It looks like the whirlpool snatched up some part of that period and . . . well, you can imagine.” |
| Technovelgy from The Traps of Time,
by John Baxter. Published by New Worlds in 1964 Additional resources -
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'Aerostat meant anything that hung in the air. This was an easy trick to pull off nowadays.'
'The Ringworld had no horizon. There was no line where the land curved away from the sky.'
'An adjustment panel outside the door would cause it to extrude various appurtenances in memory plastic...'
'Annealed in any shape for a time, and codified, the structure of that shape is retained down to the molecules.'
It's not really polite to tear the limbs off robots.
'...the imaginary companions discovered by needful children.'
''Pardon me, Struthers,' he broke in suddenly... 'haven't you a section of the factory where only robot labor is employed?''
'I opened the oblong box, where lay the automatons side by side...'
'They tied the memory to the bloodline and that was their record!'
