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Technovelgy
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Eternity Drug A medication that puts a person into a deep hibernation-like sleep for decades at a time.
(From Far Centaurus [1944] by A.E. van Vogt) |
Automatic Massager An autonomous massage machine with robotic arms and hands.
(From Far Centaurus [1944] by A.E. van Vogt) |
Luggage A trunk made from sapient pearwood.
(From The Color of Magic [1983] by Terry Pratchett) |
Relations with Extraterrestrial Life Instructions to earth citizens on how to behave when encountering alien civilizations.
(From Ogre [1944] by Clifford Simak) |
Wango Wave Energy surge that accompanies the entrance into, and exit from, overdrive outside of normal space.
(From Propagandist [1947] by Murray Leinster) |
Food Brick Appropriate manufactured food for any species.
(From Ringworld [1970] by Larry Niven) |
Mnemotropin A drug to improve the creation of long-term memories.
(From Stone Lives [1985] by Paul Di Filippo) |
Hyperspace A realm or parallel universe in which it may be possible to travel much faster than light.
(From The Statement of Archibald Swayne [1924] by Burton Peter Thom) |
Emergency Treatment Tank (Chamber) A fully enclosed regeneration device.
(From Agent of Vega [1949] by James Schmitz) |
Synthetigrav General term for any of the fields produced by synthetic gravity devices.
(From Agent of Vega [1949] by James Schmitz) |
Asteroid Mining Robot An autonomous robot able to effectively mine asteroids.
(From Catch That Rabbit [1944] by Isaac Asimov) |
Robot Voice A voice box for a robot that is an analog of the human voice system.
(From Catch That Rabbit [1944] by Isaac Asimov) |
Robot Team A set of robots, with the leader able to coordinate the activities of less intelligent subsidiary robots.
(From Catch That Rabbit [1944] by Isaac Asimov) |
Meat Puppet A person with a neural cut out chip; the chip allows computer software to completely control their actions.
(From Neuromancer [1984] by William Gibson) |
Neural Cut Out Chip An electronic device which, when implanted in the brain of the subject, allows software to take over that person's body..
(From Neuromancer [1984] by William Gibson) |
Inertia Screen A device that canceled out the law of inertia to help decelerating space craft occupants.
(From Space Rating [1939] by John Berryman) |
Planet-Smasher Devices capable of destroying an entire planet.
(From Propagandist [1947] by Murray Leinster) |
Metal Calculator Planet A planet covered entirely with machinery to a height of twenty miles and covered with a metal roof.
(From Limiting Factor [1949] by Clifford Simak) |
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