Word: thermostellar
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...Dark Star, in the middle of the next century, is to blaze the way for space colonists who will follow. The crew accomplishes this mostly by destroying dangerously "unstable" planets. These planets, which could block the way of space pioneers, are blasted by the ship's exponential thermostellar bombs, which are also programmed for speech. As they wait in the bomb bay for their one shot at glory, the bombs chatter brightly with the spacemen. The crew, well bored with one another by this time, talk more with the machines than among themselves. Their life of daily risk...
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