In some futuristic sf, we have learned to take it for granted that "cars" fly. A car carrying Dominic Flandry and Kossara Vymezal but also "...crammed with ychans..." (p. 551) lands "...in a parking lot at the edge of Zorkagrad." (ibid.) It is one of "...a swarm of battered vehicles which was arriving." (ibid.) They land at the edge of the city first because no parking lot farther in could have accommodated them and secondly because "...a sudden appearance downtown might have provoked alarm..." (ibid.) It would have looked like an aerial invasion.
When the two local Liverpool football teams played against each other in the home ground of one of them (they are a short walk apart), some trade unionists got the brilliant idea of leafletting the fans arriving to watch the match. As one of the trade unionists, I had to park an hour's walk away. When I got there, the others were giving up on the idea. Our Branch Secretary's car was blocked in and he had to go back for it later. Imagine if all of those parked cars had descended from on high. Are flying cars feasible?
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