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Alien Self-Government
Rules to assure intelligent aliens the right to govern themselves in freedom.
(From Co-Operate or Else [1942] by A.E. van Vogt)
Auto-Clerk
An automated accounting system.
(From Beyond This Horizon [1942] by Robert Heinlein)
Flitterboat
A one-man cargo space craft.
(From A Spaceship Named McGuire [1961] by Gordon Randall Garrett)
Interstellar Laser Propulsion System
A means of traveling to the stars, using a Sol-based laser system and light sail-equipped ship.
(From Rocheworld [1985] by Robert Forward)
Astroposit
Retro-style system provides a readout on your position anywhere in the galaxy.
(From The Hunch [1961] by Christopher Anvil)
IntruGrab
A system designed to capture intruders.
(From The Hunch [1961] by Christopher Anvil)
Magnetic Soles
Magnetized footwear for easy walking on low gravity metal surfaces.
(From A Spaceship Named McGuire [1961] by Gordon Randall Garrett)
Plexiskin
A means of disguise.
(From A Spaceship Named McGuire [1961] by Gordon Randall Garrett)
Bolognium
Very early fictional element, courtesy of metallurgists.
(From Transactions of Amer Soc for Steel Treating [1926] by Edgar Bain)
Clockwork Man
A man from the future with an embedded mechanism to manipulate time.
(From The Clockwork Man [1923] by E.V. Odle)
Chemical Production of Food
Creation of food in the laboratory rather than in the field.
(From Mizora: A Prophecy [1881] by Mary E. Bradley Lane)
Threat Team (of sf writers)
Gathering together a group of science fiction writers to try to predict what will happen, or to understand an unknown threat.
(From Footfall [1985] by Larry Niven (w/J. Pournelle))
VEIL
A wearable device used to foil facial recognition systems.
(From Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel [2019] by Neal Stephenson)
OLED Body Film
Attaching or implanting flexible screen material to the body as decoration.
(From Waste Tide [2019] by Chen Qiufan)
Vastening
It's hard to describe, but it's a robotic sense perception.
(From The Proud Robot [1943] by Lewis Padgett)
Pneumo-Slacks
Pants that make you look beefier.
(From The Proud Robot [1943] by Lewis Padgett)
Space Tug
A small vessel used to maneuver other ships.
(From Murder on the Asteroid [1933] by Eando Binder)
Seetee Blinker
A marker of contraterrene matter (antimatter) asteroids, to aid in interplanetary navigation.
(From Collision Orbit [1942] by Jack Williamson)
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