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"In my mind I have gone all over the universe, which may make it less important for me to make piddling little trips... I did enjoy seeing Stonehenge. It looked exactly the way I thought it would look."
- Isaac Asimov
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| Sono-Induction Coils | ||
| A public address system consisting of buried coils. |
Never give anything away to the nearby enemy; that's the first rule of successful trench warfare.
| A rasping, angry voice burst among the quarreling men in Frontline Trench X 32 like a Dongan shell. "Stop that racket, men! Another sound and the entire trench will be shot."
The loud discussion died suddenly; they looked at each other sheepishly. It was the voice of the brigade commander, three miles in the rear and one hundred feet underground. It came through sono-induction coils, vibrated within the circumscribed area of the trench. Outside that area not a whisper could be heard. |
| Technovelgy from The Shining One,
by Nat Schachner. Published by Astounding Science-Fiction in 1937 Additional resources -
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I'm fascinated by the fact that, twenty years after WWI ended, science fiction writers were still trying to figure out a better way to fight it.
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