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| Flycycle Combination flying motorcycle, kitchen and autodoc. (From Ringworld [1970] by Larry Niven) |
| General Products Hull Nearly indestructible outer skin for spaceships; pick your hull size and put what you want inside. (From Neutron Star [1966] by Larry Niven) |
| Scrith The material used to build Ringworld; has remarkable tensile strength (From Ringworld [1970] by Larry Niven) |
| Webeye Communications device with a camera, microphone, zoom lens, projector, etc.; can be sprayed on. (From The Ringworld Throne [1996] by Larry Niven) |
| Disruptor Bomb A bomb with a very special purpose; when detonated in space, it makes it impossible to detect the center of the explosion from the dispersion of the fragments. (From The Man in the Maze [1969] by Robert Silverberg) |
| Schrieber Analyzer Superior automatic air testing - for the discriminating space traveler. (From Diabologic [1955] by Eric Frank Russell) |
| Scout-Base Artificial sphere functions as a frontier outpost. (From Diabologic [1955] by Eric Frank Russell) |
| Stasis Field Energy field which prevents time from passing inside the field walls; no time passes, nobody gets hurt. (From Beyond This Horizon [1942] by Robert Heinlein) |
| Refreshing Chamber Replaces the bathroom in the future history of Robert Heinlein. (From Coventry [1940] by Robert Heinlein) |
| 'Thopter Describes any plane capable of wing-beat flight in the manner of birds. (From Dune [1965] by Frank Herbert) |
| Sniggertrance The state of a person receiving a call mediated by a Taprisiot; interiorized consciousness accompanied by spastic, jerking body movements. (From Whipping Star [1969] by Frank Herbert) |
| Gravity Web Device for limiting the extent to which a person is subject to gravitational attraction. (From Whipping Star [1969] by Frank Herbert) |
| Float-home Living entity genetically designed for use as a houseboat. (From Whipping Star [1969] by Frank Herbert) |
| Jumpdoor The entrance to an energy passage providing instantaneous transportation between points across the galaxy. (From Whipping Star [1969] by Frank Herbert) |
| Pseudoflesh Meat (protein) that is produced apart from an animal; great steaks without rumination. (From Whipping Star [1969] by Frank Herbert) |
| Vortal Tube An energy passage providing instantaneous transportation between points across the galaxy (From Whipping Star [1969] by Frank Herbert) |
| Caliban Beachball Dwelling place for unusual lifeform who make jumpdoors possible. (From Whipping Star [1969] by Frank Herbert) |
| Reading Machine A projector which showed text on a screen or the ceiling for easy reading. (From Stranger in a Strange Land [1961] by Robert Heinlein) |
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