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"Why does a creative person create? It's a type of compulsion. I like to explore new ideas."
- Bart Kosko

Sun-Room  
  On a planet-wide city, the only way to get some sun without going to the roof.  

“Subjective matter of opinion, Gaal. If you’re born in a cubicle and grow up in a corridor, and work in a cell, and vacation in a crowded sun-room, then coming up into the open with nothing but sky over you might just give you a nervous breakdown.”
Technovelgy from Foundation, by Isaac Asimov.
Published by Doubleday in 1951
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Compare to the sunparlor from The Cubic City (1929) by Rev. Louis Tucker, D.D. and the sun dome from The Illustrated Man (1951) by Ray Bradbury.

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