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Old 02-20-2009, 02:42 PM   #83
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Originally Posted by Gudy View Post
Philip Pullmans Dark Materials series comes to mind, book three (The Amber Spyglass) specifically. It had aliens which used the round and nearly indestructible seeds of a tree as a kind of unicycle to whiz along the naturally produced "highways" on the planet.
Yes! That was it! Thank you. For some reason I was thinking that it was a short story which is probably why I couldn't remember.
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