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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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