force-propelled

Updated: May 13, 2025

Every room was connected through a series of tubular tunnels, along which force-propelled cars or elevators slid smoothly tubes whose walls fell together into air-tight seals at any point, in case of a rupture. As they made their way back to the great control-room room of the vessel, they saw something that because of its small size and clear transparency they had not previously seen.

E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith - Skylark Three