Word: marse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Computers can do just about everything but leap tall buildings at a single bound, and someday they will be able to do that too. One long-range goal of the technicians in the Artificial Intelligence Lab is to build an "intelligent automaton" that could substitute for men on a Mars...
In one story, cold-warring Russia and the U.S., after inadvertently eradicating all life from the British Isles, join in recreating Merry England with fake issues of the London Times and fond memories of Robin Hood. In another, a cuckolded space scientist packages his wife as condensed food for a...
While in prison he had undergone a rough-and-ready operation for cancer. The disease now became acute again. Near death, he made his way to a hospital in Tashkent, where the tumor was arrested. The experience gave rise to Cancer Ward, a weaker book than his others. Yet the...
Economy Preferred. Despite the tight budget squeeze, the space panel stresses the importance of exploratory space flights to Mars and Venus each time the earth's neighbors are in a favorable position-about five or six times a decade. But instead of using complex and expensive Mariner or Voyager...
Because of the age-old curiosity about life on Mars, the report also gives top priority to a Mariner orbital flight in 1971 and a Mariner-type craft that could orbit and land on the red planet by 1973. Mariner's large payload would enable it to carry instruments...