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| Sun-Engine A device that absorbs solar rays for power. (From Valley of Lost Souls [1939] by Eando Binder) |
| Transfer Tube Between Ships A means of going between ships in space without needing space suits. (From Electronic Siege [1932] by John W. Campbell) |
| Space Ship Starting Track A sloped track to assist a space ship taking off. (From The Shot Into Infinity [1929] by Otto Willi Gail) |
| Telephone Wire Tether A communication line that connects people floating in space beside a spaceship with the ship and with each other. (From The Shot Into Infinity [1929] by Otto Willi Gail) |
| Steering Shot Pistol The simplest way to move in space, where every action has an equal and opposite reaction. (From The Shot Into Infinity [1929] by Otto Willi Gail) |
| Cybernetic Brain An artificial brain to control the movements of an prosthetic leg using nerve impulses. (From The Cybernetic Brain [1949] by Charles Recour) |
| Artificial Intelligence A machine or other created system able to respond in a human-like way to questions or problems. (From Moon of the Unforgotten [1951] by Edmond Hamilton) |
| Cyberpunk A person who codes without concern about law or social norms; the term is used exclusively to name a sf genre of stories featuring such persons. (From Cyberpunk! [1983] by Bruce Bethke) |
| Space Suit Helmet Rearview Mirror Having a way to easily see behind you while wearing a spacesuit. (From Have Space Suit - Will Travel [1958] by Robert Heinlein) |
| Robots Learn With Cameras Robots learn new actions by recording them with a camera, doing away with expensive programming. (From The Instigators [1956] by Raymond E. Banks) |
| Robot Row - Robots For Consumers The adoption curve for personal robots will accelerate like the curve for automobiles. (From The Instigators [1956] by Raymond E. Banks) |
| Desubstantiation Effect In interstellar space, the ship seems like the only material entity in the universe, leading to loneliness and anxiety. (From Death's End [2010] by Cixin Liu) |
| C-Plus Cannon Weapon fire that can skip past the speed of light and back. (From Inhuman Error [1974] by Fred Saberhagen) |
| PURDAH A method of ensuring that a given text was created by its putative author, while masking the identity of the author. (From Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel [2019] by Neal Stephenson) |
| Edit Stream Internet content curated by a single person or service, then streamed to those who pay for the service. (From Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel [2019] by Neal Stephenson) |
| Testing For Human How can you distinguish the artificial from the real? (From Inhuman Error [1974] by Fred Saberhagen) |
| Space-Sphere A bubble of reality. (From When Space Burst [1937] by Edmond Hamilton) |
| Space Bursts When space itself inflates and eventually blows up. (From When Space Burst [1937] by Edmond Hamilton) |
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