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"[Science fiction is] nightmares and visions, always outlined by the barely possible."
- Gregory Benford
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| Cephalotropic Dart | ||
| A slim, short-range device that homes in on the brain wave pattern of the target. |
| One after another, the cigarillos were cut open by Theodoric's men, inspected ... the fifth one turned out to be hard; it did not yield to the sharp-bladed pocket knife, and, a moment later, a more complex analytical device showed the cigarillo to be a homeostatic cephalotropic dart.
"Whose Alpha-wave pattern?" Theodoric Ferry asked Dosker. "Yours," Dosker said tonelessly. He watched without affect as the two decayed-eyed but very expert employees of THL crushed the dart under heel, rendering it useless. |
| Technovelgy from Lies, Inc.,
by Philip K. Dick. Published by Fantastic in 1964 Additional resources -
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Philip K. Dick was fascinated by the idea of devices that made use of brain wave patterns; he re-used this idea in his 1969 story The Electric Ant. See the entry for ident dart.
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