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Space Bursts When space itself inflates and eventually blows up.
(From When Space Burst [1937] by Edmond Hamilton) |
Space-Sphere A bubble of reality.
(From When Space Burst [1937] by Edmond Hamilton) |
Firebulance An ambulance equipped to sterilize by fire.
(From Vector [1958] by Margaret St. Clair) |
Dark Side Referring to the unlit part of a planet's surface.
(From The Power Planet [1931] by Murray Leinster) |
Magnetized Cloth Pajamas Sleeping in zero gee - just like on Earth!
(From Abercrombie Station [1952] by Jack Vance) |
Magnetic Coil Slippers Maintain your footing in zero gravity.
(From Abercrombie Station [1952] by Jack Vance) |
Robot AI Driven Mad Placing an artificial intelligence or autonomous robot in a situation in which its brain is unable to make a decision and is destroyed or driven mad.
(From Liar [1941] by Isaac Asimov) |
Robopsychologist One who examines the thought processes of robots.
(From Liar [1941] by Isaac Asimov) |
Disk-Shaped Landing Pads Used instead of typical landing gear with wheels.
(From The Swordsman of Sarvon [1932] by Charles Cloukey) |
Precrime A system by which criminal acts are known before they occur.
(From The Minority Report [1956] by Philip K. Dick) |
Landing Legs Projections from the base of a space craft that allow it to land upright in gravity.
(From No Planet Is Safe [1958] by Harlan Ellison) |
Celestial Atlas Planet-by-planet descriptions throughout known space.
(From No Planet Is Safe [1958] by Harlan Ellison) |
Command-Disk A device that sends out audible tones to control flesh-monsters.
(From Creatures of the Comet [1931] by Edmond Hamilton) |
Cometeering Exploring a comet!
(From Creatures of the Comet [1931] by Edmond Hamilton) |
Landing Arms Arms that poke out from a space craft to allow it to land on solid ground, in gravity.
(From Creatures of the Comet [1931] by Edmond Hamilton) |
Ascension-Framework A tower to which the space craft is attached, holding it vertical for its flight upward.
(From Evans of the Earth-Guard [1930] by Edmond Hamilton) |
Funnel-Shaped Landing Framework A special purpose landing dock area that is wider at the top until the craft is captured toward the bottom.
(From Evans of the Earth-Guard [1930] by Edmond Hamilton) |
Space-Phone A device for communicating with space ships, both ship-to-ship and ground-to-ship.
(From The Message From Space [1930] by David M. Speaker) |
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