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This reminds me of the description of traffic on the Motie home world Mote Prime in "A Mote in God's Eye" I found this quote from it at the following link: htt
by sls 11y ago
This reminds me of the description of traffic on the Motie home world Mote Prime in "A Mote in God's Eye"
I found this quote from it at the following link:
http://aramink.com/blog/2012/08/31/the-mote-in-gods-eye-35-years-later/ http://aramink.com/blog/2012/08/31/the-mote-in-gods-eye-35-y...
"Tall, ugly buildings loomed above them to shoulder out the sky. The black streets were wide but very crowded, and the Moties drove like maniacs. Tiny vehicles passed each other in intricate curved paths with centimeters of clearance. The traffic was not quite silent. There was a steady low hum that might have been all the hundreds of motors sounding together, and sometimes a stream of high-pitched gibberish that might have been cursing.
Once the humans were able to stop wincing away from each potential collision…"