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| Firebulance An ambulance equipped to sterilize by fire. (From Vector [1958] by Margaret St. Clair) |
| Dark Side Referring to the unlit part of a planet's surface. (From The Power Planet [1931] by Murray Leinster) |
| Magnetized Cloth Pajamas Sleeping in zero gee - just like on Earth! (From Abercrombie Station [1952] by Jack Vance) |
| Magnetic Coil Slippers Maintain your footing in zero gravity. (From Abercrombie Station [1952] by Jack Vance) |
| Robot AI Driven Mad Placing an artificial intelligence or autonomous robot in a situation in which its brain is unable to make a decision and is destroyed or driven mad. (From Liar [1941] by Isaac Asimov) |
| Robopsychologist One who examines the thought processes of robots. (From Liar [1941] by Isaac Asimov) |
| Disk-Shaped Landing Pads Used instead of typical landing gear with wheels. (From The Swordsman of Sarvon [1932] by Charles Cloukey) |
| Precrime A system by which criminal acts are known before they occur. (From The Minority Report [1956] by Philip K. Dick) |
| Landing Legs Projections from the base of a space craft that allow it to land upright in gravity. (From No Planet Is Safe [1958] by Harlan Ellison) |
| Celestial Atlas Planet-by-planet descriptions throughout known space. (From No Planet Is Safe [1958] by Harlan Ellison) |
| Command-Disk A device that sends out audible tones to control flesh-monsters. (From Creatures of the Comet [1931] by Edmond Hamilton) |
| Cometeering Exploring a comet! (From Creatures of the Comet [1931] by Edmond Hamilton) |
| Landing Arms Arms that poke out from a space craft to allow it to land on solid ground, in gravity. (From Creatures of the Comet [1931] by Edmond Hamilton) |
| Ascension-Framework A tower to which the space craft is attached, holding it vertical for its flight upward. (From Evans of the Earth-Guard [1930] by Edmond Hamilton) |
| Funnel-Shaped Landing Framework A special purpose landing dock area that is wider at the top until the craft is captured toward the bottom. (From Evans of the Earth-Guard [1930] by Edmond Hamilton) |
| Space-Phone A device for communicating with space ships, both ship-to-ship and ground-to-ship. (From The Message From Space [1930] by David M. Speaker) |
| Wind-Suncatcher A combination wind turbine and solar energy gathering device. (From Down on the Farm [1937] by Simpson Stokes) |
| Opaque Helmet A spacesuit helmet that has no see-through components at all; fully enclosed metal. (From Wanderer of the Void [1937] by Dr. Arch Carr) |
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