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| 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) |
| Yardsticks Smaller people take up less space. (From This Crowded Earth [1958] by Robert Bloch) |
| Great Change Humans are reduced to one foot in height, to take up less space and use fewer resources. (From The Giant [1942] by Basil E. Wells) |
| Burrow A place for a person to connect to the global computer network for months at a time. (From Certainty [2026] by John Twelve Hawks) |
| Interactive Toy A sophisticated computer concealed in some sort of toy, with a wireless connection to the Cloud (From Certainty [2026] by John Twelve Hawks) |
| Associators Computer system finds correlations. (From Against the Fall of Night [1948] by Arthur C. Clarke) |
| Artificial Hand An entirely artificial human hand. (From L’Ève future (Tomorrow’s Eve) [1885] by Jean-Marie Villiers de l’Isle-Adam) |
| Andréide (Andraiad) An entirely artificial human-imitation, a synthetic person. (From L’Ève future (Tomorrow’s Eve) [1885] by Jean-Marie Villiers de l’Isle-Adam) |
| Electromagnetic Ring Muscles Simulating rigid and fluid limbs with interconnecting metal rings held in place by electromagnetic currents. (From No Woman Born [1944] by C.L. Moore) |
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