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From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Need Smaller Astronauts?
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 19:11:50 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-09-10, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:

> Need Smaller Astronauts? Five Dubious SF Solutions to the Problem 
> of Astronaut Mass

Slice & dice.

IIRC, it's in David Langford's _Space Eater_ where our unfortunate
protagonists are sent through a wormhole-ish thingy to a remote
world.  The catch: They need to go through a two-centimeter opening.
Some disassembly and reassembly is required.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de