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Kzinti Lesson - Propulsion As Weapon
The power of a craft's means of propulsion repurposed as an offensive weapon.
(From The Warriors [1966] by Larry Niven)
Dream-Adventures
Dreams sent directly to the brain are more popular than movies.
(From Doom Over Venus [1940] by Edmond Hamilton)
Dream-House
An establishment wherein one could find the finest dream adventures placed in his own mind.
(From Doom Over Venus [1940] by Edmond Hamilton)
Dream-Machine
The mechanism that sent standardized dreams into the brain.
(From Doom Over Venus [1940] by Edmond Hamilton)
Planetary ID Card
Identification for every person on every planet in the solar system.
(From Doom Over Venus [1940] by Edmond Hamilton)
Floating Villa
An artificial island several acres in extent.
(From Doom Over Venus [1940] by Edmond Hamilton)
Death-Capsule
A tiny implanted explosive capsule can be activated remotely.
(From Doom Over Venus [1940] by Edmond Hamilton)
Bifocal TV Screen Lenses
Using the bottom lens of bifocals as a TV screen.
(From Doom Over Venus [1940] by Edmond Hamilton)
Dazer
A person who learned biofeedback techniques to float on his own endorphins.
(From Earth [1990] by David Brin)
Credibility Rating
How believable are your blog posts? your emails? your tweets?
(From Earth [1990] by David Brin)
Solar Station Switch Room
A power station for the entire solar system.
(From Doom Over Venus [1940] by Edmond Hamilton)
Water From Lunar Gypsum
Extracting water (and therefore oxygen, by electrolysis) from apparently dry lunar material.
(From The Moon is Hell [1950] by John W. Campbell)
Master Ventriloquism Corporation (MV)
A central source of product advertising, commercials sent out to every product.
(From Captive Audience [1953] by Anne Warren Griffith)
Earplug Decision (Restraint of Advertising)
A Supreme Court judgement that declared that earplugs used to block advertising were unconstitutional.
(From Captive Audience [1953] by Anne Warren Griffith)
Buy-Me-Discs
Tiny disks attached to products in stores that received transmitted ads to share with consumers.
(From Captive Audience [1953] by Anne Warren Griffith)
Stratospheric Traffic
Bad traffic at every level.
(From The Great God Awto [1940] by Clark Ashton Smith)
Mixed Men
A mostly human being, but with an additional robot brain.
(From The Storm [1943] by A.E. van Vogt)
Hydroponics
Growing food without soil, typically from water saturated with nutrients.
(From The Hydroponic Monster [1940] by Maria Moravsky)
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