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| Tubeways A fully enclosed, evacuated tube, through which passenger train cars are shot as through a rifle barrel! (From Death in the Tubeway [1939] by Stanton A. Coblentz) |
| Dead Spot A small planet in space has unusual properties. (From Interplanetary Graveyard [1939] by R.R. Winterbotham) |
| Factory in the Sky A vast manufacturing facility in space, between Mars and Jupiter. (From Factory in the Sky [1941] by Basil E. Wells) |
| Robot Replaces Own Battery A robot performs the operation of replacing its own depleted battery with a fresh one. (From I, Robot [1939] by Eando Binder) |
| Radiation Trap Helmet A very specialized helmet for use in mines with radiation. (From Radiation Trap [1941] by Harry Walton) |
| Remote Voting It’s not in person and it’s not quite purely electronic. (From Fuzzies and Other People [1984] by H. Beam Piper) |
| Plague Weapons The use of biological warfare. (From In the Year 2889 [1889] by Michel Verne) |
| Music Sphere A beautiful white sphere full of your music. (From Controlled Experiment [1954] by Chad Oliver) |
| Stationmaster A human being is preserved for life in space, serving as the conscious mind running a space station. (From Many Dreams of Earth [1954] by Charles E. Fritch) |
| Synthetic Animal Engine A vehicle engine that uses synthetic muscles for power. (From The Immortality Seekers [1937] by John W. Campbell) |
| Intelligent Micro-Life Intelligent cells that can act within the body, made from inorganic materials. (From The Immortality Seekers [1937] by John W. Campbell) |
| Oil Bath An alien method for surviving the high accelerations of space flight. (From Hands Off [1954] by Robert Sheckley) |
| Freeze-Blasters The ray it fires is cold - very cold. (From Hands Off [1954] by Robert Sheckley) |
| Atomic Power Amazing energy at hand. (From The Metal Giants [1926] by Edmond Hamilton) |
| Heavy-Metal Detector Handy for a quick survey of a new planet. (From Hands Off [1954] by Robert Sheckley) |
| Programming Panel Setting up a new product for manufacture in a post-robotic plant. (From The Midas Plague [1954] by Frederik Pohl) |
| Pinkness An alien creature. (From Time is the Simplest Thing [1961] by Clifford Simak) |
| Brain Specialist Caste A hive race only produces intelligence when needed (which was not very often). (From Swarm [1982] by Bruce Sterling) |
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