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"Retire? Yeah, I want to die with my head in the typewriter. That's my idea of retirement."
- Alfred Bester
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| Flying Cone | ||
| A vehicle for 1-3 persons that hovers and has mechanical arms. |
| HE BOBBLED swiftly back to Yso. Horne shut the canopy and worked the grav-shields to right the cone. He started the tiny compressed-air propulsion unit and the cone moved sedately at the pace of a man walking, back aIong the gallery the way it had come.
When the two-man cone rounded a curve, the guards in it saw Chell coming first of all, a huge furry green ball carrying Yso in three of his tentacles. Yso appeared to be unconscious, hanging limp with her yellow hair falling down like a banner and the scanty blue streamer fluttering from her waist. With his two spare tentacles Chell made gestures of warding off Horne in his cone, who was apparently herding him along with his burden. The powerful claw-handed arms were extended now from the cone, threatening him, and one was redhot and close enough to his fur to make Chell’s gestures of alarm authentic enough...
 (Flying Cone from 'Fugitive of the Stars' by Edmond Hamilton) Horne touched two controls in swift succession. The cone shot forward several feet and a great iron hand reached out and gripped the man’s arm with its amazingly flexible fingers. |
| Technovelgy from Fugitive of the Stars,
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