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| Insosuit A space suit specially designed to resist extreme heat. (From Runaround [1942] by Isaac Asimov) |
| Robot Surgeon An autonomous robotic surgeon. (From The Bicentennial Man [1976] by Isaac Asimov) |
| Soft Speaker A device that sends a tightly-controlled beam of sound. (From The Exhalted [1940] by L. Sprague de Camp) |
| Rhetorizer A computerized assistant for writers. (From The Penultimate Truth [1964] by Philip K. Dick) |
| Flicker Drive A space ship drive that allows instantaneous travel across the galaxy. (From Fremder [1996] by Russell Hoban) |
| Multiple Sample Voice The use of multiple voice samples to create a single, smoothed voice. (From The Shining One [1937] by Nat Schachner) |
| Subphoton Search Ray A special ray beam that penetrates into hidden bunkers; images are caught on special film cameras. (From The Shining One [1937] by Nat Schachner) |
| Vibration Screen Subtle rays prevent electronic surveillance. (From The Shining One [1937] by Nat Schachner) |
| Concentrated Light Beam of powerfully concentrated light pressure. (From The Shining One [1937] by Nat Schachner) |
| Sono-Induction Coils A public address system consisting of buried coils. (From The Shining One [1937] by Nat Schachner) |
| Heat Generating Magnetic Disks Devices used to artificially raise the temperature of the surface of moons to a reasonable level. (From Spawn of the Red Giants [1937] by Frank Belknap Long, Jr.) |
| Sapho Juice Unique substance enhanced the cognitive performance of Mentats. (From Dune [1965] by Frank Herbert) |
| Etherometer A device that looked at the 'ether' pervading space as a means of determining gravitation field strength. (From Spawn of the Red Giants [1937] by Frank Belknap Long, Jr.) |
| Anti-agathic drugs Drugs that indefinitely postpone death from old age. (From Cities in Flight [1957] by James Blish) |
| Vacuum Suit An early description of a space suit, and the first use of this now archaic phrase. (From The Man from the Atom [1926] by G. Peyton Wertenbaker) |
| X Gun (X-Beam Projector) A device that projected soft x-rays into small planetoids to determine their composition. (From Diamond Planetoid [1937] by Gordon A. Giles) |
| Automatic Reversed Memory A device that activates memories and plays them back in reverse order. (From Brain Control [1937] by Dave Cummins) |
| Reaction Pistol A hand-held device for maneuvering in zero gravity in a space suit. (From Martian Guns [1932] by Stanley D. Bell) |
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