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| Robant A robotic servant. (From The Impossible Planet [1953] by Philip K. Dick) |
| Loitering Micro-Missile A small missile that does not need line-of-sight and can move at a slow pace until it finds its target. (From Invader on My Back [1968] by Philip E. High) |
| Spetsdöd A unique gun that is part of the shooter. (From The Man Who Never Missed [1985] by Steve Perry) |
| Razorback Autonomous motorcycle weapons platform. (From Daemon [2006] by Daniel Suarez) |
| Pseudogravity Gravity produced by artifice, rather than by a suitably large mass. (From Common Sense [1941] by Robert Heinlein) |
| Space Travel Human movement through outer space. (From A Baby on Neptune [1929] by Clare Winger Harris (w/MJ Breuer)) |
| Self-Selling Robot A robot that sells itself. (From Sales Pitch [1954] by Philip K. Dick) |
| Ident-Key Allows the retrieval of a person's entire history of reading material, allowing the prediction of his future thinking. (From The Penultimate Truth [1964] by Philip K. Dick) |
| KloraDerm Human skin variant that contains chlorophyll to provide energy. (From Old Man's War [2005] by John Scalzi) |
| Manufactured Wife A wife made to order, programmed to meet her husband's requirements. (From A Wife Manufactured to Order [1895] by Alice W. Fuller) |
| Video Communicator A device that carried both voice and image, letting the two parties see each other. (From The Machine Stops [1909] by E.M. Forster) |
| The Cosmic Express A means of transmitting matter wirelessly. (From The Cosmic Express [1930] by Jack Williamson) |
| Retaliatory Tapeworm (Counter-Worm) Using computers to deliberately damage another person's reputation and well-being. (From The Shockwave Rider [1975] by John Brunner) |
| Surrogate Skin False skin that is sprayed onto damaged areas. (From The Puppet Masters [1951] by Robert Heinlein) |
| Asymptotic Drive A propulsion drive that used a tiny black hole to generate energy. (From Imperial Earth [1976] by Arthur C. Clarke) |
| Quadraturin Substance that creates more space when applied to walls, floors and ceilings. (From Quadraturin [1925] by Sigizmund Krzhizhanowsky) |
| Headspace A virtual world in which a person could raise a virtual baby with full haptic realism. (From Flood [2008] by Stephen Baxter) |
| Angel Music Player A device that beams music directly into your brain, without wires. (From Flood [2008] by Stephen Baxter) |
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