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"Poised between intransigent scepticism and uncritical credulity, it [science fiction] is par excellence the literature of the open mind."
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Crowdcutter  
  A device worn to part crowds.  

Mishima activates her crowd cutter and it springs from its microcrimped home in the clasps on her dress, a transparent vinyl shell shaped like a shark fin that lets her scythe through the mass of people glomming toward the sign.

"Jorge!" she yells into her earpiece mic. Her vinyl wedge is pushing aside clingy couples, shoulder-hugging friends...

Technovelgy from Infomocracy, by Malka Older.
Published by Tor in 2016
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