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  • In the Golden Age of science fiction, advances in atomics, aeronautics, and astronautics allowed writers to envision a future that very easily lent itself to an adventure story: namely, the planetary romance.

    Science Fiction vs. Fantasy: Speaking for the Defense 2005

  • I began connecting the known knowledge of psychology, with my theories of what I now call atomics, or universal mathematics.

    Telekinesis and Quantum Field Theory Sean 2008

  • New Year's resolutions is something 'atomics' are bound to do.

    World of SL 2009

  • I could see a situation where Egyptian or Iran/Iraq militants may be attempting to aquire atomics to get back at Israel.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Gentlemen’s Club. 2010

  • The story is set several millennia in the future, after ‘the Ancients destroyed themselves in that terrible flurry of orbit-to-earth atomics and tailored-virus bombs called The Sixty Minute War.’

    Catastrophe and Coincidence « Tales from the Reading Room 2010

  • As well as an opportunity to exhibit new work — besides the monumental pieces, there will be 25 smaller, studio-sized pieces representing, as Ms. Malone describes it, "an autumn harvest of nuts and berries, acorns, pumpkins, gourds, fennel, atomics and seeds" — this show celebrates Ms. Malone's homecoming to London.

    A Potter's Monumental Inspiration Emma Crichton-Miller 2010

  • Gretchen-One split the seconds into a thousand pieces releasing seconds as Einstein split the atom astonishing energy, unfathomable energy she destroyed that day remotely it lay in the distant timeline, she found it destroyed it with atomics with the atomic seconds thus saved mankind forever thus saved what remained of mankind a dry skeleton in an underground bunker deep in the heart of old egypt

    three gretchens Jeff Swanson 2011

  • There was a time when the atomics industry fueled more than political debate — it fueled the growth spurts of God's creatures, which turned the tables against the domineering species known as man.

    Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2008

  • Just like out DNA or atomics having to deal with disease and all kinds of new concepts.

    More creationist misconceptions about the eye - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • You have all been issued atomics to achieve this end.

    365 tomorrows » 2008 » April : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008

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