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Adventure Machines Presenting a false life to the optic nerve, and later the other instruments of the senses.
(From The City of the Living Dead [1930] by Laurence Manning (w/F. Pratt)) |
Nerve Wire In which silver wire could be attached to living nerves, making possible direct stimulation.
(From The City of the Living Dead [1930] by Laurence Manning (w/F. Pratt)) |
Marvel-Metal Eyes Mechanical eyes with photo-sensitive cells.
(From The City of the Living Dead [1930] by Laurence Manning (w/F. Pratt)) |
Sapient Being Rights Discovery of sapient races puts planets off limits for development.
(From Little Fuzzy [1962] by H. Beam Piper) |
Lunar Colony A permanent base on the moon.
(From The Lunar Trilogy: On the Silver Globe [1903] by Jerzy Żuławski) |
Dream Palace (Sleep Palace) A vast building full of wired-in sleepers!
(From The Man Who Awoke - The City of Sleep [1933] by Laurence Manning) |
Matter Machines Devices that can turn one form of matter into any other complex form.
(From The Man Who Awoke - The Elixir [1933] by Laurence Manning) |
Master Records The substance of dreams.
(From The Man Who Awoke - The City of Sleep [1933] by Laurence Manning) |
Food of the Gods Delicious food manufactured from sand and gravel.
(From The Man Who Awoke - The City of Sleep [1933] by Laurence Manning) |
Electrical Rain Machine A device that can procure rain from passing clouds.
(From The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century [1828] by Jane Webb Loudon) |
Glass Coffin A special pod for re-entering the earth's atmosphere, and dropping an individual to the Earth safely.
(From The Space Coffin [1932] by A. Rowley Hilliard) |
Cosmograph A "radio" using light rays, for space communication.
(From Tyrant of the Red World [1932] by Richard Tooker) |
Sun-Shutters Blocking the light in a spacecraft.
(From Tyrant of the Red World [1932] by Richard Tooker) |
Stalker's Fever A spaceman's malady, in which madness results in a crew member hunting down and murdering a colleague.
(From The Rakehills of Heaven [1971] by John Boyd) |
Sun Shutters A mechanical means of limiting the amount of sunshine coming into a spacecraft.
(From SOS in Space [1937] by Eando Binder) |
Space Fear Space travel can be terrifying.
(From SOS in Space [1937] by Eando Binder) |
Bronze Jailer A metal-clad monstrosity that always gets his man.
(From Triplanetary [1934] by E.E. 'Doc' Smith) |
Electrostatic Disturbance in Space An unnavigable area in space inundated with electron streams from sun spots.
(From SOS in Space [1937] by Eando Binder) |
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