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   FredKiesche 🇺🇦 (fredkiesche@dice.camp)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 00:47:17 JST FredKiesche 🇺🇦

   Clifford D. Simak had a “life blanket” in one of his stories (see link). He reused the idea in my current read (“So Bright the Vision”) in which the main character mentions the concept was used by a obscure SF author, hundreds of years before, name long lost. http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=1453

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 00:53:05 JST Charlie Stross

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     @nyrath @FredKiesche Nope: Varley's Symbs predate The Ophiuchi Hotline—they showed up in his earlier Eight Worlds stories ("Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance" won a Locus Award in 1976). Predate "Doorways in the Sand", and very different from the Heinlein "Puppet Masters" (although that's clearly where Futurama's Brain Slugs come from).

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     Winchell Chung ⚛🚀 (nyrath@spacey.space)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 00:53:06 JST Winchell Chung ⚛🚀

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     I wonder if that was the inspiration for the Symbs in John Varley's The Ophiuchi Hotline?

     http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=2228