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	Hovercar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A hovercar is a fictional transport vehicle appearing in works of science fiction.
		The closest real-world device is the hovercraft, which elevates itself above a water or level hard surface using a cushion of air retained by a flexible skirt.
		Such devices are not considered to be hovercars, however — that term is used only for the fictional device.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hovercar (162 words)

	Hovercars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		By the 1960s the hovercraft came floating along on a cushion of air and we were apparently on the verge of having wheel-less hovercars at last.
		Arthur C. Clarke imagined that the coming of the hovercar would be a revolution in transportation unheard of since Ogg figured out how to make that rolly thing.
		But the family hovercar is still about as far away as the jet pack and the food pill.
	davidszondy.com /future/car/hovercar.htm (413 words)

	Dragon's Library - Mysterious Delivery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The hovercar was now much closer and it stopped not far away from the couple.
		The first man stood watching silently until the hovercar could neither be seen nor heard, and then he too disappeared inside.
		A little later the light was turned off and the desert looked exactly as it had before this mysterious meeting had taken place, with the stars as the only witnesses that there had actually been a meeting.
	www.dragonlibrary.net /2000/story311.htm (420 words)

	Hovercar - Memory Alpha
		A Hovercar is a vehicle that utilizes some form of Antigravity technology to "hover" over the ground, and drive through streets similar to Earth automobiles.
		When Captain Archer was brought back 9 months to his apartment by Daniels, he looked out his window into the city and saw hovercars flying by.
		When Benjamin Sisko was about 4, his mother who had left him and his family died in a hovercar accident in Australia.
	www.memory-alpha.org /en/wiki/Hovercar (184 words)

	Vehicle Combat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The driver of the hovercar has partial cover thanks to the door/dashboard of the car and the car works like any other kind of cover (in this case, I'd say head, chest and arms are visible and a -20 or -10 to hit depending on how big the windows are, etc).
		The driver is in the cockpit, but hovercars don't have cockpits with their own damage, so any hits to the cockpit hurt the pilot.
		The hovercar is a big target (+10) to hit, but you're trying to hit only 1/10th of it (about a -30*), which turns into a -20 to hit the cockpit (conveniently, the same number for hitting the pilot before).
	www.paxdraconis.com /forums/index.php?&board=3;action=display;threadid=322;start=0;boardseen=1 (1065 words)

	- Chapter 10
		Aside from their headlamps, almost the only lights in camp were at the few locations where work went on at night—motor pools, the hospital, and, of course, Army Headquarters.
		After a while the mild hills gave way to an area almost as level as the military camp they'd left, and the hovercar slowed.
		Hovercars do not ride an air cushion; they operate on the same gravitic principle as floaters.
	www.baen.com /chapters/W200405/0743488237__10.htm (3756 words)

	Not anything - The Writer
		The air stirred stiffly from the passing of the Hovercar as he jumped at the side of it, whipping up the sand at the crest of the dune.
		These Hovercars were not designed for much other than going straight to work and straight home; they had two side windows and a front window.
		It seemed to the Coordinating Minister, as he landed in the empty Hovercar parking lots outside of the city walls, that this was a city that had lost everything.
	www.writermag.com /WRT/CS/forums/12272/ShowPost.aspx (4527 words)

	The Hunger of the Flies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A silvery sandblasted fragment of a hovercar door bumping against the desert stones in a windblown rhythm.
		His hovercar had been speeding in overdrive, hoping that it could avoid most of the Ignavi scout forces that were hunting it and outrun the ones that sighted it.
		His failing legs were desperately trying to put distance between himself and the crumpled form of the hovercar that seemed to cling at his heels whenever he turned around.
	www.evilnet.net /~jhfong/Myops/MIRS/hunger.html (4058 words)

	Jak II Review for PlayStation 2 - Gaming Age (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		There are also Tony Hawk-ish hoverboarding and Wipeout style hovercar missions, both of which are worked into Jak II in a comfortable amount.
		In small doses the change of pace is always appreciated, but the hovercar and weapon missions in Jak II become tiring after a while.
		I personally could have done without the majority of the hovercar and weapon-based missions, but overall the game works well, looks and sounds fantastic, and provides many hours of mostly enjoyable gaming.
	www.gaming-age.com /cgi-bin/reviews/review.pl?sys=ps2&game=jak2 (778 words)

	Ex Astris Scientia - Federation Ground Transportation
		These are the known hovertrains and hovercars of the Federation.
		The vehicle which seems to run on something like rails may be part of a public transportation system or a private-owned hovercar.
		The Cambridge hovercar only appears in Q's future in TNG: "All Good Things", but it is not far-fetched to assume that it does or will really exist (although the city itself would look a lot better without all the skyscrapers).
	www.ex-astris-scientia.org /schematics/ground_transportation1.htm (484 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Resurrection, Inc. by Kevin J. Anderson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		With a throb of its rear jets, the Enforcers' armored hovercar descended to the flagstones.
		Jones moved away from the hovercar, shaking off his revulsion of the pentagram, the blood sacrifice.
		Frampton retrieved some equipment from the hovercar while Jones stepped forward, methodically squashing each of the five fl candles with the heel of his boot.
	www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/eBook1610.htm (1888 words)

	FictionPress.Com Story : Code Name: Lunatic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		After hopping into the hovercar, Ryoko and Tina headed down the street, Tina messing with the palm com.
		Matt's hovercar lifted up out of the parking space and fled down the road, soon after, Ryoko drove after them, keeping his distance of course.
		The woman smirked before she slipped back into the hovercar, and her and Matt drove off.
	www.fictionpress.com /read.php?storyid=252281 (3149 words)

	SF Citations for OED
		Hovercar, shown in artist's conception, is one possible development of revolutionary lift and propulsion principle.
		An air-borne vehicle called the `Hovercar' is being produced commercially by Saunders-Roe Ltd., British aircraft manufacturer.
		High overhead, a hovercar skimmed the tops of the buildings, twisting in the bright sunlight.
	www.jessesword.com /sf/view/231 (131 words)

	Wildboy Club Fanfiction :: Live Fast, Live Hard, Die ... Later. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		All they -did- was borrow his hovercar for an hour, then waited at a nice little cafe in the Village for him to come and retrieve it.
		But when the subject of Fury’s hovercar came up, the four women had stopped talking and had listened quietly to the exchange going on between the two women.
		Not even swiping Fury’s hovercar a year ago was as hysterical as this.
	www.zereldax.com /wbc/fanfiction/viewstory.php?sid=59 (3324 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As such, it was not a planet associated with United Galactica and basically meant that their hands were well and truly tied.
		There was barely enough room for the two of them in the back of the hovercar, and they were separated from the front by a sheet of blast-proof Plas-Steel.
		Within a few moments, the hovercar came to a stop in front of a building in a state of serious disrepair.
	web.infoave.net /~jedediah/dp3.txt (5067 words)

	Message Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Re: TOA geting in to the hovercar [spoiler's welcum]
		In Reply To: Re: TOA geting in to the hovercar [spoiler's welcum] posted by d13 on March 03, 2005 at 03:29:54:
		You can do something inside the health center if you are patient and closely watch what the receptionist does over a period of time.
	www.rinkworks.com /rinkforum/messages/88504.shtml (336 words)

	Tip (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The old recordings said it was important to choose a location where both the station and it's approaches were concealed from ground and aerial observation.
		So, Volar parked the hovercar under a small overhang covered by trees, placed the photooptic netting in the branches above, then laid out the medical table and supplies.
		A hovercar stopped fifty paces from the rescue station, one soldier stepped out, then the vehicle continued on it's way.
	www.rebelroleplayersalliance.org /Tips.cfm?Tip=1426 (2086 words)

	Name Brand Equipment
		Or how about when a well dressed employer is described as stepping out of a "hovercar" and wearing "expensive clothes?" During one of my campaigns I made the little change of making the militia rifles into "Journeyman Longrifles," a cheap and unwieldy bolt action of Capellan manufacture.
		This became a memorable item and afterwards they lugged around a crate of those rifles in their dropship to remind them of that mission.
		Because of this, the quality is sometimes less than desirable, but it is easily mass produced and effective for basic crowd control operations.
	www.sanctum.com /surfers/btech/equip.htm (759 words)

	FANFIC: Dire Consequences by Jenny (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The hovercars were fairly agile and were quickly maneuvering in and out of the gaps.
		Holmes dropped a gear and steadied out the path until he was once again trailing the leading hovercar.
		He corrected his own hovercar, and with one final ram, the other car spun out and exploded, falling to the ground.
	www.dnaco.net /~mobrien/holmes/direcon3.html (955 words)

	Starcraft Fan Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He has driven at much higher speeds before so this should be no problem for him but this is Mira and Jonathanfs first time to travel at this speed and their bodies may not be well enough to handle the force of the turns.
		Jonathanfs scream of pain was more than enough to let Rick lose control of the hovercar, sending it spinning and tumbling ferociously, scraping bits of ground that they pass on until it slammed to a large tree with a force strong enough to pull the tree out from the ground with its roots halfway up.
		The hovercar was in upright position but the engines were all destroyed partly by the impact but mostly from the substance that melted almost 15 percent of the hovercar.
	www.starcraft.org /fanfiction/ShortStories/Apocalypse+4:+Engagement (1695 words)

	[No title]
		A hovercar floats on an antigravity field, so it can maneuver easily even in mountainous terrain or shallow water (though not deep ocean).
		Hovercars are invaluable in an invasion for their ability to take cities quickly, but they are easily destroyed by flying saucers or groundcars.
		Your goal should be to fight every battle at an advantage, pitting each unit against its natural prey--saucers against hovercars, defenders against saucers, hovercars against defenders.
	www.rpi.edu /AFS/home/43/chenj/acm/packages/xconq/5.5/common/lib/future.per (866 words)

	FANFIC: Dire Consequences by Jenny (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Inspector Lestrade ran her hand through her dark hair and relaxed into the seat of the hovercar.
		She and Holmes were required to make an appearance in court because of their key role in his capture.
		Lestrade glanced at Holmes, whom she had reluctantly permitted to drive the hovercar.
	www.dnaco.net /~mobrien/holmes/direcon1.html (423 words)

	G4 - Feature - 'Beam Breakers' (PC) Review
		Instead, it's a futuristic hovercar action game taking place in a city straight out of "The Fifth Element." This week on "Extended Play," we fasten our safety belts and explore the urban canyons of Neo York.
		Taking place entirely within the skyscraper-infested streets of Neo York, "Beam Breakers" puts you at the controls of a hovercar in a bid to impress your boss with an assortment of criminal antics.
		Pile-ups aren't really an option, as hovercars only need go under or over any fender bender, and buzzing pedestrians is fun only the first time.
	www.g4tv.com /techtvvault/features/41870/Beam_Breakers_PC_Review.html (828 words)

	Transyte
		Mode: Transyte’s hovercar mode has the shape of a rain drop with a large wing on the back, which is shaped like a pentagon, the odd point into the body, but the rear end is caved in, making it look like a heptagon.
		-Hover Generators: Two circle generators on the bottom of his hovercar mode and his feet in robot mode, they are able to keep Transyte afloat for up to heights of 10 ft.
		-Jet Thrusters: A thruster pack on the rear of his hovercar mode and his back in robot mode, these are able to propel him to decent speeds and aid the hover generators in flight in robot mode.
	www.angelfire.com /rpg/dice/transyte.html (2453 words)

	The Hindu : Young World : Bookmark
		Hovercar racing is not a sport for the weak-minded: it's mind-blowingly fast, dangerous, and totally unpredictable.
		Surprisingly, though, he's accepted — and with his Hovercar, the Argonaut, and his brother the Bug, he's all set to race!
		An incredible, fast-paced book, Matthew Reilly vividly describes hovercar racing, and though the influence of various sports (golf and Formula 1 especially) is obvious, the sport still retains a unique quality.
	www.hindu.com /yw/2005/11/04/stories/2005110400120800.htm (278 words)

	Amiga Reviews: Hard Nova
		As the active participant in the whole show, you're not given a single linear path to follow, but left to your own ends to discover the game's secrets.
		Once you're there, the hovercar comes into play, as it is used for all trans-planetary travel.
		The icons themselves are obvious, but the sprites that show your team — either racing around a planet in the hovercar or hurtling through deep space — are pitifully small and painfully hard to control.
	www.classicgaming.com /amigareviews/hardnova.htm (783 words)

	"Trial By Fire" (Part Two)
		A fl hovercar passed her as she walked the remaining quarter-block down Third Street.
		The whoosh of a speeding hovercar made her look up just in time to throw herself out of the car's way.
		What kind of crazy--" Then she saw where the hovercar was going, and the words died in her throat.
	members.aol.com /suvwi2/trial2.htm (2049 words)

	hovercar
		Antonis Livieratos's piece Hovercar was available for free (in a MP3 form) from the Web-magazine babylon.gr from December 10, 1999 to January 1, 2000.
		It was composed and recorded by Antonis Livieratos aided by Marios Sarakinos (drum loops), Giorgos Kitsios (violins),and Manolis Angelakis (miking guru, mastering).
		The piece was based partially on a traditional Greek New Year's song, and was addressed to Santa Clauss as a personal request of Livieratos to receive a hovercar as a Christmas present from Santa.
	www.livieratos.gr /eng_version/musicforthewebeng.htm (133 words)

	[No title]
		The thirty-ton hovercar could skim over almost any terrain at 90 miles an hour cruise speed.
		The 130-mm mortar hunched at the rear belched fire and a tank abruptly exploded.
		He was staring awestruck at the hovercar, which, decked out in TRES Corps, Zeta Squad markings, hummed its way into the rapidly emptied clearing.
	www.jihad.net /homefront/burdoo3.txt (986 words)

	Message Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It's Satyrday morning/afternoon and I'm just wandering about trying to find things to do, but everything seems to point to the purse/id card/credit card etc, all in the hovercar.
		Re: TOA - hovercar - strrawmeadow 14:35:02 08/25/02 (
		Re: TOA - hovercar - strawmeadow 15:00:00 08/25/02 (
	www.rinkworks.com /rinkforum/messages/60297.shtml (128 words)

	Mike's Home for Wayward MiB Agents - Mission BIG-1 Debriefings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fortunately, the agents passed the Racarians as the Racarians were driving a hovercar down the wrong side of traffic, skipping over the tops of cars.
		The car (who identified itself as Carl) was anxious about the turret and the agents followed some advice from Carl to move in close to the Racarians to inside the minimum range of the turret.
		Once there, X lept from the LTD to the roof of the hovercar where she became locked in hand-to-hand combat with a Racarian wielding an illegal device which caused paralyzing pain.
	gladstone.uoregon.edu /~mpeters1/missions/10 (549 words)

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