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| Magno-Bars Electromagnet-tipped rods used by meteor miners to capture iron-rich asteroids in space. (From The Meteor Miners [1935] by L.A. Eshbach) |
| Meteor Swarm Mining A fleet of ships hunting for meteoric iron - in space! (From The Meteor Miners [1935] by L.A. Eshbach) |
| Nutrient Gelatin Tank Essential hardware for creating a new, improved humanity - isotope men! (From The Isotope Men [1936] by Nat Schachner) |
| Telepadion Instructor A device that places an entire sensory experience directly into the brain. (From An Adventure on Eros [1931] by J. Harvey Haggard) |
| Aliens Speak English The skeleton men of Mercury speak English, but have a good reason for it. (From The Mines of Haldar [1934] by Maurice G. Hugi) |
| Space-Sailor A spaceman; someone who makes his living by voyaging in space. (From The Star-Roamers [1933] by Edmond Hamilton) |
| Belt Automatic-Equalizers The wearer's experience of gravity will be just like Earth's. (From The Star-Roamers [1933] by Edmond Hamilton) |
| Tubular Space-Gangway A means of traversing the short distance between two ships in space. (From The Star-Roamers [1933] by Edmond Hamilton) |
| Etheric Propulsion-Vibrations Faster-than-light travel. (From The Star-Roamers [1933] by Edmond Hamilton) |
| Folding Computer Terminal A foldable pocket computer. (From The Merchants of Souls [2002] by John Barnes) |
| Checker-City A city planned as a checker-board of alternating vegetation and buildings. (From The Star-Roamers [1933] by Edmond Hamilton) |
| Bulerite A building material, too good to be true, with hidden properties. (From Macrolife [1979] by George Zebrowski) |
| AI-Based Hiring and Firing Letting a computer system handle the hiring and firing of employees. (From Manna [2002] by Marshall Brain) |
| Poison Space Cloud (Etheric Poison) A deadly cloud of gas large enough to envelop the solar system. (From The Poison Belt [1913] by Arthur Conan Doyle) |
| Metavirus (Digital Metavirus) Binary code that can infect computers or even hackers, through the binary nerve. (From Snow Crash [1992] by Neal Stephenson) |
| Galactography Geography on a galactic scale. (From Second Foundation [1953] by Isaac Asimov) |
| 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-Machine The mechanism that sent standardized dreams into the brain. (From Doom Over Venus [1940] by Edmond Hamilton) |
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