"Why do these rocket-ship-like vehicles need roads at all?", is my first question, followed much more urgently by "OMG what's happened to the earth, it's grey?"!
Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Fantastic_Story_Magazine_v04n01_1952-Summer_Damaged_ibcbc_El_PM
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Slot Led Astro-Navigation
Van Vogt's first draft of the story dealt primarily with the private lives and personal dramas of Lunar rocket-slot-car pilots. With the obvious implied metaphor regarding powerful men frustratingly confined to a predefined "track", where any social or career deviation would end disastrously.
हिति , in Nepāl Bhāṣā, is the word for a shared community water tap. Even in modern Newar cities, these ancient structures still pour out fresh mountain water piped through ancient underground filters and conduits. They are a place to wash, to talk, to drink, to meet the locals: a nourishing, refreshing social-ecological place.
