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"This is a predictive tool I've used: There are goals we've sought for ten thousand years, and we'll go on seeking them. Instant transport and travel, immortality (or at least longevity and miracle cures.), instant learning …"
- Larry Niven
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| Space Station | ||
| An outpost in space, usually in a fixed position or steady with respect to other bodies in space. |
As far as I know, this is the first use of this phrase in science fiction.
| The station, hundreds of thousands of miles away, hung like a mote between the titan black sun and the changeless fiery glory of the Nebula. It was equipped with powerful electron-blast motors to repel the gravitational pull of the Black Star, and to that end we waged a never-ceasing battle. If the engines should fail, or run short of fuel -
Here on this metal world hanging in space we forgot about it all, and got on with the work. As Captain Berg stepped into the generating room, men were busy twirling wheels and adjusting levers with their eyes focused upon the multiplicity of gauges around them. Turbulent air signed out through unseen valves, while the generators working on the marvelous K-metal hummed incessantly. Those generators manufactured two hundred thousand kiiowatts of electron power, which perpetually bathed the corroded hull of the great space-station in a greenish glow. It was this power that neutralised the tremendous gravitational pull of the Black Star hundreds of thousands of miles away. |
| Technovelgy from Flaming Frontier,
by Bernard Buley. Published by Scoops in 1934 Additional resources -
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Compare to the space platform from E.B. White's excellent 1950 short story The Morning of the Day and the guided missile control station from Between Planets (1951) by Robert Heinlein
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