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| Gas Giant Large planet consisting primarily of gas with a solid core. (From Solar Plexus [1952] by James Blish) |
| Canola Oil Vegetable oil refined for use as fuel (From Virtual Light [1993] by William Gibson) |
| Fractal Knife The blade uses a fractal geometry to increase its cutting surface. (From Virtual Light [1993] by William Gibson) |
| Chunker A device that fires small cubes of rubber; a non-lethal form of riot control. (From Virtual Light [1993] by William Gibson) |
| City Fathers A set of computer systems which run every mechanical system in a city. (From Cities in Flight [1957] by James Blish) |
| Towel A simple scrap of cloth with surprisingly many uses. (From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [1979] by Douglas Adams) |
| Babel-17 An alien weapon in the form of a language. (From Babel-17 [1966] by Samuel R. Delany) |
| Sub-Etha Sens-O-Matic A device which senses passing spacecraft; essential tool of interstellar hitchhikers (From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [1979] by Douglas Adams) |
| Babel Fish A living fish which, when placed in your ear, will live there and translate any form of language for you. (From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [1979] by Douglas Adams) |
| Infinite Improbability Drive Generates a field in which anything, no mater how improbable, can exist. (From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [1979] by Douglas Adams) |
| Self-Satisfied Door A door that is much more satisfied with its functionality than it has any right to be. (From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [1979] by Douglas Adams) |
| Spindizzy A device that made use of a relationship between electron spin, electromagnetism and gravity allowed any object to leave the Earth's surface. (From Cities in Flight [1957] by James Blish) |
| Ava A piece of learning software. (From The Calcutta Chromosome [1995] by Amitav Ghosh) |
| Quantum Logic Thinker (QL) A computer system that thinks about problems in unusual ways. (From Heads [1990] by Greg Bear) |
| Stealth House A home that is entirely sealed, leading to toxic buildup. (From Virtual Light [1993] by William Gibson) |
| Empathy Box A device which allows a group of people to empathize with a single person (like television lets many people view the same broadcast). (From The Little Black Box [1964] by Philip K. Dick) |
| Mood Organ A device which allows you to dial the mood you would like to have. (From Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? [1968] by Philip K. Dick) |
| Electric Sheep An electronic farm animal; a non-organic robot covered with sheepskin that acts like a sheep. (From Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? [1968] by Philip K. Dick) |
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