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in the sci-fi sense, the whole point of a story that refuses to leave the atmosphere.

means describes systems, characters, or fiction that stay planted on earth rather than in space or the abstract.

from grew out of aerospace jargon distinguishing earth installations from orbital or airborne ones, then leaked into storytelling as shorthand for grounded, human-scale narratives.

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