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| Magnetized Cloth Pajamas | ||
| Sleeping in zero gee - just like on Earth! |
This is a unique solution to an age-old problem (for science fiction writers, anyway).
| AS they worked Mrs. Blaiskell commented on various aspects of the room. “That bed now ! Earl wasn’t satisfied with sleeping under a saddleband - like the rest of us, no ! He wears pajamas of magnetized cloth, and that weights him against the cushion almost as if he lived on Earth. |
| Technovelgy from Abercrombie Station,
by Jack Vance. Published by Thrilling Wonder Stories in 1952 Additional resources -
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