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Cholinesterase-Destroying Gas Horrific anti-personnel poison.
(From Lies, Inc. [1964] by Philip K. Dick) |
Bug Chasers Anti-surveillance devices.
(From Lies, Inc. [1964] by Philip K. Dick) |
Weary Deep-Sleep Phildickian old-sleep.
(From Lies, Inc. [1964] by Philip K. Dick) |
Robot Control Board Control panel with small screens showing the point of view of different robots.
(From The Robot Master [1929] by O.L. Beckwith) |
Trans-Space Transmission A curious method of communication between worlds.
(From The Moon Moth [1976] by Jack Vance) |
Pocket Gravity Nullifier Personal device stops gravity's effect.
(From The Sky Maniac [1929] by Henri Dahl Juve) |
Living Book A small creature that is used to contain and play back information.
(From The World Below [Collins So] by Sydney Fowler Wright) |
Air Tunnel A means of sending trains through the air.
(From Through the Air Tunnel [1929] by Harl Vincent) |
Beeper A handheld radar set, used to find items that have drifted off.
(From Islands in the Sky [1952] by Arthur C. Clarke) |
Cylinder Space Suit A mostly rigid, cylindrical space suit.
(From Islands in the Sky [1952] by Arthur C. Clarke) |
Tannin-Secretion Pills Artificially darkens skin, for skin protection.
(From Crashlander [1994] by Larry Niven) |
Robobug A cyborg insect.
(From The Golden City [2009] by John Twelve Hawks) |
Crowdcutter A device worn to part crowds.
(From Infomocracy [2016] by Malka Older) |
Gravity Nullifier Shields a large object from the effect of gravity.
(From The Sky Maniac [1929] by Henri Dahl Juve) |
Young Blood - New Blood For Old Replacing the blood plasma of older people with material from younger people.
(From Methuselah's Children [1941] by Robert Heinlein) |
Interplanetary Clearance Bureaucratic red tape associated with busy space ports.
(From Methuselah's Children [1941] by Robert Heinlein) |
Flip to Brake Maneuver to put the tail end (with rocket output) in the forward direction of travel to use for lowering velocity.
(From Murder on the Asteroid [1933] by Eando Binder) |
Protective Field (Safety Field) An static energy field used to protect a city.
(From The Man in the Maze [1969] by Robert Silverberg) |
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