Atheling/Blish asks why no one is imagining "free flight" (p. 46) any more.
"...[Jorun] held out his arm, and [Julith] clasped it with one hand while her other arm gripped his waist. The generator inside his skull responded to his will, reaching out and clawing itself to the fabric of forces and energies which was physical space. They rose quietly, and went so slowly seaward that he didn't have to raise a windscreen."
-"The Chapter Ends," pp. 259-260.
Free flight.
However, "The Chapter Ends" was published in 1953 whereas "Things Still To Come..." was originally published in 1964 so maybe Atheling/Blish was right that no one, except comic strip and film script writers, was still imagining free flight when he wrote the latter.
Free flight is one of our "impossibles" - for the time being.
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