Beyond The Sprues
Modelling => Ideas & Inspiration => Other => Topic started by: elmayerle on April 07, 2013, 08:45:36 AM
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Robert Heinlein to Ted Sturgeon, 11 Feb, 1955:
"Story about two countries fighting not with men, not with robots, but with mutated-animal soldiers. Fighter-pilot cats (all the gadgetry automatic, but the piloting done by the supercat), Rhino tanks, ape paratroopers, sea lion "frogmen" etc."
Full text is at http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/10/help-from-heinlein.html (http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/10/help-from-heinlein.html) As best I can recall, Mr. Heinlein's Door Into Summer was the first sf novel to ever consider CAD.
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I wonder if this is what the creators of "SwatKats" were thinking of.