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| Martian Iceboat When the open water on your planet has frozen all the way to the bottom, you need to travel on ice. (From A Martian Romance [1999] by Kim Stanley Robinson) |
| Piggyback-Slurp Terminal Interception of a live data stream using an interposed terminal. (From Congo [1980] by Michael Crichton) |
| Moving Platform Long moving sidewalk bands that provided transportation. (From A Visitor From The Twentieth Century [1928] by Harold Donitz) |
| Heat Trap Using the greenhouse effect to terraform a planet or moon. (From Farmer in the Sky [1950] by Robert Heinlein) |
| Great Pain of Space A kind of fatal space sickness afflicting humans who travel in space. (From Scanners Live in Vain [1950] by Cordwainer Smith) |
| Aircoat A flying device. (From Scanners Live in Vain [1950] by Cordwainer Smith) |
| Steam Cart Horse A steam-powered autonomaton horse to pull a wagon or cart. (From Frank Reade and his Steam Horse [1883] by Harry Enton) |
| Automated Bomber A bombing plane that automatically targets, drops, returns for fuel and more munitions, all automatically. (From Flying Dutchman [1951] by Ward Moore) |
| Automatic Gun A large artillery device that is entire automated. (From The Gun [1952] by Philip K. Dick) |
| News-Machine An automated device that presents a variety of different broadcast forms on the same device. (From The Swordsman of Sarvon [1932] by Charles Cloukey) |
| Push Humans Into Mental Illness When a robot pushes a person into a harmful psychological state. (From Liar [1941] by Isaac Asimov) |
| Mechanical Grease Monkey (From Flying Dutchman [1951] by Ward Moore) |
| Automatic Loader Entirely automated system for replenishing the arms on a bomber plane. (From Flying Dutchman [1951] by Ward Moore) |
| Automatic Fuel Hose A robotic snakelike hose to refuel aircraft. (From Flying Dutchman [1951] by Ward Moore) |
| Telagog Remote control excellence - guaranteed! (From The Guided Man [1952] by L. Sprague de Camp) |
| Memory Vault Your personal computer memory, that you can't live without. (From The End of Summer [1954] by Algis Budrys) |
| Pretentionists People who took refuge in the past with their customs and lives. (From Ring Around the Sun [1952] by Clifford Simak) |
| Racial Mentality A kind of group-mind or shared consciousness. (From Star Maker [1937] by Olaf Stapledon) |
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