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Explore the inventions, technology and ideas of science fiction writers at Technovelgy (that's tech-novel-gee!) - over 4,250 are available. Use the Timeline of Science Fiction Invention or the alphabetic Glossary of Science Fiction Technology to see them all, look for the category that interests you, or browse by favorite author / book. Browse more than 6,800 Science Fiction in the News articles.

'If Anyone Is Watching Earth...'
'Our study of your race has convinced us that you are not fitted to leave your planet in the present state of your civilization.' - Arthur C. Clarke, 1946. (9/3/2026)
Epirus High-Power Microwave Defeats Drones
'...the spreading beam of the deranging ray struck them, and Then one toppled and fell. Then another.' - Ray Cummings, 1931. (9/1/2026)
Cloud Of Space Rubbish From China's Long March Rocket
'Within seconds the material was spread out over fifty yards, in a matter of hours it might occupy several cubic miles of space...' (8/29/2026)
Biomimetic Tendons From Rochu Robotics
'... the curious parallelism to animal motions.' - HG Wells, 1898. (8/27/2026)
Living Human Neuron Biological Compute Rack
'The men are dead, but their acquired wisdom lives on and I am the beneficiary.' - Dr. David H. Keller, 1931 (8/25/2026)
Martha Stewart Approves Ojai 'Living Room On Wheels'
'Young people found the driverless car admirable for petting.' - David H. Keller, 1935. (8/23/2026)
ESA's Draco To Study Heat Of Reentry
'...a synthetic which air-friction would erode.' - EE Doc Smith, 1934. (8/21/2026)
Buy A Galaxy? Maybe Start Smaller
'The sky is the limit' just got higher. (8/19/2026)
The United States Space Academy Is Official
'Is our orbit to Space Academy clear?' - Carey Rockwell (8/17/2026)
Is There A Global Problem With Who Is Having Children?
'After twenty generations of shillyshallying...' - CM Kornbluth, 1950. (8/15/2026)
You Will Eat The Cookies Made From Plastic...
'Our planes are going to start bringing in bales of discarded plastics...' - Rick Shelley, 1989. (8/13/2026)
It's A Giant Robot! You Reporters Have Been Warned!
'... completely forgetting the ship at sight of the awesome figure and great head of the giant Gaut...' (8/11/2026)
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Matter Machines
Devices that can turn one form of matter into any other complex form.
(From The Man Who Awoke - The Elixir [1933] by Laurence  Manning)
Food of the Gods
Delicious food manufactured from sand and gravel.
(From The Man Who Awoke - The City of Sleep [1933] by Laurence  Manning)
Dream Palace (Sleep Palace)
A vast building full of wired-in sleepers!
(From The Man Who Awoke - The City of Sleep [1933] by Laurence  Manning)
Master Records
The substance of dreams.
(From The Man Who Awoke - The City of Sleep [1933] by Laurence  Manning)
Electrical Rain Machine
A device that can procure rain from passing clouds.
(From The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century [1828] by Jane Webb  Loudon)
Glass Coffin
A special pod for re-entering the earth's atmosphere, and dropping an individual to the Earth safely.
(From The Space Coffin [1932] by A. Rowley  Hilliard)
Sun-Shutters
Blocking the light in a spacecraft.
(From Tyrant of the Red World [1932] by Richard  Tooker)
Cosmograph
A "radio" using light rays, for space communication.
(From Tyrant of the Red World [1932] by Richard  Tooker)
Stalker's Fever
A spaceman's malady, in which madness results in a crew member hunting down and murdering a colleague.
(From The Rakehills of Heaven [1971] by John  Boyd)
Bronze Jailer
A metal-clad monstrosity that always gets his man.
(From Triplanetary [1934] by E.E. 'Doc'  Smith)
Space Fear
Space travel can be terrifying.
(From SOS in Space [1937] by Eando  Binder)
Sun Shutters
A mechanical means of limiting the amount of sunshine coming into a spacecraft.
(From SOS in Space [1937] by Eando  Binder)
Electrostatic Disturbance in Space
An unnavigable area in space inundated with electron streams from sun spots.
(From SOS in Space [1937] by Eando  Binder)
Legged Space Suits
Individual space suits consisting of large observation bubbles and robotic legs for movement.
(From Master of the Asteroid [1932] by Clark Ashton  Smith)
Bipedomobile
A two-legged vehicle.
(From Warrior Queen of Lolarth [1943] by Ross  Rocklynne)
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