belt-or-gear

Updated: May 23, 2025

The words came hard, but he managed to say then. "I crawl." "Crawl, what?" "I crawl, sir. You'll want my gun " "Keep it. There's a lot more difference than that between us. How close can you count seconds?" "Plus or minus five per cent, sir." "Close enough. Your first job will be to build some kind of a brute-force, belt-or-gear thing to act as a clock. You will really work.

E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith - Subspace Survivors