Chubby, brunette Eunice Kinnison sat in a rocker, reading the Sunday papers and listening to the radio. Her husband Ralph lay sprawled upon the davenport, smoking a cigarette and reading the current issue of EXTRAORDINARY STORIES against an unheard background of music. Mentally, he was far from Tellus, flitting in his super-dreadnaught through parsec after parsec of vacuous space. E.E. "Doc" Smith, Triplanetary, Chapter 5: "1941"
Saturday, September 18, 2010
10 Billion Trillion Carats
Shine on, you crazy diamond. Didn't Poul Anderson and others use this. And Clarke had a big honking diamond in 2061: Odyssey Three.
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