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"I wrote many novels which … contained the element of the projected collective unconscious, which made them simply incomprehensible to anyone who read them, because they required the reader to accept my premise that each of us lives in a unique world."
- Philip K. Dick
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| Planetoid With Earth Gravity | ||
Another way to accomplish the feat of people having some sort of normal life on a tiny asteroid or planetoid is to have more mass than usual.
| Beneath them, growing larger by the second, a small world rushed up to meet them. The readings in the Planetograph seemed to have gone crazy. It showed diameter 1200 miles; composition mineral and radio-active. Gravity seven-eighths of Terra. It couldn’t be! Unless perhaps this unknown planetoid was the legendary core of the world that at one time was supposed to have existed between Jupiter and Mars. Only that could possibly explain the incredible gravity. |
| Technovelgy from The Soul Eaters,
by William Conover. Published by Planet Stories in 1944 Additional resources -
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Compare to the Chardion Field from Star of Dreams (1941) by Jack Williamson.
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