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  • Buy a habitat cell in one of those low-gee communities in orbit.

    365 tomorrows » 2007 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2007

  • It's hard to tell from down here, but the central cuboidal opening looks to be at least half a kilometer on a side, and they might very well be posthumans with low-gee wings -- angels.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

  • It's a crucified angel, wings ripped where they've thrust the spikes in between the joints that support the great, thin, low-gee flight membranes.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

  • Home is a split-level manifold, rooms connected by T-gates scattered across a variety of habitats: low-gee sleeping den, high-gee exercise room, and everything in between.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

  • Check out these amazing clips of riders on the vomit-comet (the freefalling jet that simulates low-gee environment) rupturing water-balloons and injecting the resulting blobs with dye and air and such.

    Boing Boing: May 19, 2002 - May 25, 2002 Archives 2002

  • I'm thinking low-gee Tai Chi will be really mediagenic.

    Boing Boing: November 25, 2001 - December 1, 2001 Archives 2001

  • Even low-gee feels funny after twelve hours of zero-gee; I'm bowlegged when I walk toward her, like a cowboy who's been reamed with a corncob.

    A King of Infinite Space Steele, Allen 1997

  • Now it served as a shelter for the tractors that worked out on the surface, a storage area, even a playing arena for the annual low-gee basketball matches.

    Moonwar Bova, Ben, 1932- 1997

  • At about this same time, a small biotech research team on the Moon, working out of a secret laboratory in the western rim of the Sea of Tranquillity, succeeded in gestating the first test-tube embryos specifically bioengineered for living in low-gee space environments.

    A King of Infinite Space Steele, Allen 1997

  • He was in his mid-forties, tall and low-gee slim, smooth-chinned, bearing much of Tyr-a's blond hand - someness but none of her verve and fi-equent merriment.

    Inconstant Star Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1991

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