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"What has allowed so many Psychopathic Personalities to rise so high in corporations and government, is that they are so decisive. Unlike normal people, they are never filled with doubts, for the simple reason that they cannot care what happens next."
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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| Interplanetary-Liner | ||
| A vast passenger ship in space. |
As far as I know, the first use of this picturesque term.
| I mean that this fanatic refuses to set us upon the Earth or any other planet or put us aboard some passing inter-planetary liner.
 (Interplanetary-Liner from 'Liners of Space' by Jim Vanny) |
| Technovelgy from Liners of Space,
by Jim Vanny. Published by Air Wonder Stories in 1930 Additional resources -
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This term was used again in Hornets of Space by RF Starzl just a few months later in 1930:
THE Medusa seemed motionless in space, not a tremor to indicate her swift transit to Uranus. The rockets had been practically cut off, and the great interplanetary liner drove through the void on her own momentum. In appearance she resembled a silvery, enormously magnified shell fired from a huge siege gun, but her passengers would not have understood this simile.
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