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Device Name	Book/Story	Author	Date
Zag House A means of implanting dreams.	Time Quarry	Simak	1950
Zed-Ray A penetrating beam that would disclose the details inside of a closed object.	Blood of the Moon	Cummings	1936
Zero 'g' (Zero Gee) In a ship in orbit, in free fall.	Islands in the Sky	Clarke	1952
Zeroentropy Spray A method of reducing the disorder of an object as much as possible, reducing the temperature close to absolute zero.	Gather, Darkness!	Leiber	1943
Zero-G Ashtray An ashtray designed for use on a space station.	Waldo	Heinlein	1942
Zero-G Cups Cups that were specially designed to be usable under zero gravity conditions.	Space Tug	Leinster	1953
Zero-Gravity A state in which gravity is effectively absent or cancelled out.	If Science Reached the Earth's Core	Binder	1938
Zero-Ray Inflicts a fatal frostbite on living tissue.	An Adventure in Futurity	Smith	1931
Zero-Time Jail A building in which an energy field prevents time from passing.	A World Out of Time	Niven	1976
Zeta-Ray Makes and maintains vast holes - even in ocean water!	The Death Cloud	Schachner (w. AL Zagat)	1931
Zip Paper Very thin display like a single sheet of paper.	Mariposa	Bear	2009
Zoo Fences Caustic water moat	The Dosadi Experiment	Herbert	1977
Zoom Call Visaphone System An amazingly early description of a modern zoom call on a big screen monitor.	John Jones's Dollar	Keeler	1915

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