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This Immortal by Roger Zelazny:
Science Fiction Inventions, Technology and Ideas
This is such a likable book; it is set several hundred years in the future on a ruined Earth. Aliens visit it as you would a museum; imagine a race foolish enough to despoil a planet. Hot spots (from radiation) dot the planet; human DNA moves on. Satyrs and nymphs again hold sway in rocky grottoes in Ithica. It won a Hugo for Zelazny. Select an invention:
Chemelectric Afferent Nerve-Analogues |
Diptray |
Gauzy - a tent whose fabric is one molecule thick. |
Radar Mesentery - sensitive robot skin |
Radson Skimmer |
Rolem (Wrestling Robot) - robot wrestler |
Simicolor |
Sprung-Samser Treatment |
Sunshades - a transition |
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