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Star-Globe (Ship) A spherical spacecraft.
(From Brother Worlds [1951] by Raymond Z. Gallun) |
Retard-Jets Rockets to slow down.
(From Brother Worlds [1951] by Raymond Z. Gallun) |
Anti-Gravity Drive Electric force curves space.
(From The Last Evolution [1932] by John W. Campbell) |
BLIT (Secret Basilisk) The Berryman Logical Image Technique can "shock" an AI trained to do pattern recognition.
(From Blit [1988] by David Langford) |
Van Goom's Gambit A chessboard pattern that unhinges the mind of any player who sees it.
(From Von Goom's Gambit [1966] by Victor Contoski) |
Hyperstereoscope A book of three-dimensional pages.
(From The Book of Worlds [1929] by Miles J. Breuer) |
Engineless Automobile Hover No engine, no steering wheel, yet it runs.
(From An Adventure in Time [1930] by Francis Flagg) |
Tabletop Display A display monitor built into a flat, horizontal table surface.
(From An Adventure in Time [1930] by Francis Flagg) |
Predictograph Capable combining and projecting hundreds of complex curves into the future.
(From Futility [1929] by S.P. Meek) |
Transparent Aluminum Invisible light steel.
(From The Space Hermit [1929] by E. Edsel Newton) |
Lifebox A device that captures a person's life experience in software.
(From Soft Death [1986] by Rudy Rucker) |
Bard A machine that invents randomized stories and can read them out loud or animate them for viewing.
(From Someday [1956] by Isaac Asimov) |
Automated Laboratory A fully automated machinery of invention.
(From The Shores of Death [1964] by Michael Moorcock) |
Cubics Small, square animals that can combine to create a larger entity.
(From The Face of the Deep [1942] by Edmond Hamilton) |
Concentrated Cosmic Radiation Passing through a region of intense radiation alters lifeforms.
(From The Face of the Deep [1942] by Edmond Hamilton) |
Group Mind A shared consciousness between a number of individuals.
(From Last and First Men [1930] by Olaf Stapledon) |
Robot Cop A robotic police officer.
(From Pacifist of Hell's Island [1943] by R.M. Williams) |
Moon Valley Breathable Atmosphere Atmosphere is retained in a deep valley on a moon or otherwise airless body.
(From Moon Heaven [1939] by Dom Passante) |
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