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Dictionary of Materials Terms in Science Fiction
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Name |
Author (Publication Date) |
City of Glass An entire city made of unique structural glass and ceramic. |
Frank Herbert (1972) |
Related Science Fiction in the News
FlexRAM Liquid Metal RAM And One Particular SF Movie Robot 'Its lines wavered, flowed, and then painfully reformed.' - Philip K. Dick, 1957. (re: Philip K Dick, 2/16/2024 ) |
Your Martian Dream Home, Made By Fungi '... it was the cheapest building material known.' - Larry Niven, 1968. (re: Larry Niven, 5/5/2022 ) |
3D Printed Glass Uses Stereolithography Techniques 'All that with glass...' - Frank Herbert, 1972. (re: Frank Herbert, 5/13/2020 ) |
Engineered Living Building Materials '... it was the cheapest building material known.' Larry Niven, 1968. (re: Larry Niven, 3/13/2020 ) |
Unsinkable Metal Latest Gates Obsession 'A metal... light as cork.' - Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1929. (re: , 11/7/2019 ) |
Shape-Memory Metal Transforms Millions Of Times 'Annealed in any shape for a time, and codified, the structure of that shape is retained down to the molecules.' - Samuel R. Delany (re: Samuel R. Delany, 10/12/2016 ) |
Growing Metal In The Shape You Want What more do you need, engineers? (re: Frank Herbert, 8/15/2015 ) |
Laser Etching Makes Metal Super-Hydrophobic 'The water flowed off those walls without binding tension.'- Frank Herbert, 1965. (re: Frank Herbert, 1/17/2015 ) |
3D Printing Your Science-Fictional Metals I love science-fictional materials! (re: Various, 8/2/2014 ) |
Self-Healing Plastic Fixes Even Big Holes 'The room had been strained and healed faultily....'- JG Ballard, 1962. (re: JG Ballard, 5/28/2014 ) |
Living Root Bridges Of India Grow your own infrastructure and housing using ecologically sound materials. (re: Jack Vance, 5/8/2014 ) |
Artificial Magnetic Monopoles Created Could monopoles exist in nature? Might they be found in exotic materials in space? (re: Larry Niven, 6/24/2013 ) |
Low-Cost, Implantable Electronics Get Closer Better coatings need to become a reality, before science-fictional devices can come into being. (re: Samuel R. Delany, 6/18/2013 ) |
Below Absolute Zero? Gas Is Negative-Kelvin Material 'From absolute zero, just where can the temperature drop to?'- Alan E. Nourse, 1951. (re: Alan E. Nourse, 1/4/2013 ) |
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