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Heliocar Ground vehicle that can also lift off like a helicopter.
(From The Prince of Space [1931] by Jack Williamson) |
FTL Abbreviation for "faster than light".
(From The Enchanted Forest [1950] by Fritz Leiber) |
Search-Bug An exploratory robot.
(From Autofac [1955] by Philip K. Dick) |
Rocket Tug The equivalent of a tug boat for space ships.
(From Crystalized Thought [1937] by Nat Schachner) |
Repulsor Screen Diverts troublesome asteroids.
(From Crystalized Thought [1937] by Nat Schachner) |
Plani-Glass Transparent and light and has the tensile strength of steel!
(From Crystalized Thought [1937] by Nat Schachner) |
Automatic Factory Manufacturing facility that functions entirely autonomously.
(From Autofac [1955] by Philip K. Dick) |
Photo-Electric Mosaic A means of capturing astronomical images.
(From Beyond Which Limits [1937] by Nat Schachner) |
Mercy Gas Breathe it and die.
(From The Saga of Pelican West [1937] by Eric Frank Russell) |
Poldek Ability to sense life.
(From The Saga of Pelican West [1937] by Eric Frank Russell) |
Automatic Ore Cart An autonomous truck for raw ore processing.
(From Autofac [1955] by Philip K. Dick) |
Magnetic Anchor A means of affixing an anchor point on a spacecraft hull.
(From Dead Star Station [1933] by Jack Williamson) |
Pizzled (Semantic Garble) Use of nonsensical statements to deliberately confuse an artificial intelligence.
(From Autofac [1955] by Philip K. Dick) |
No Human Programmers The idea that computers are too complicated and too important to be programmed by human beings.
(From Millennium [1983] by John Varley) |
Domed Mapviewer Illuminated hemispherical map display.
(From Dorsai! [1960] by Gordon R. Dickson) |
Synthetic Milk Milk made without cows.
(From Autofac [1955] by Philip K. Dick) |
Robot Factory Representative An ambulatory agent of an automatic factory.
(From Autofac [1955] by Philip K. Dick) |
Raw Material-Tropic Moves towards desirable raw materials.
(From Autofac [1955] by Philip K. Dick) |
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