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"At its best, SF is the medium in which our miserable certainty that tomorrow will be different from today in ways we can't predict, can be transmuted to a sense of excitement and anticipation, occasionally evolving into awe."
- John Brunner
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| Eavesdropper | ||
| Device to detect the presence of recording devices. |
| "...Should I discuss it in a restaurant?"
Anne turned the small, compact-like object around, so that he could see that it was in fact a meter of some sort. Its needle was in uncertain motion, but near the zero-point. "There's no mike close enough to pick you up," Anne said, snapping the device shut and restoring it to her purse. "Go ahead." "All right. Some day you're going to have to explain to me why you allowed yourself to get into that first fight with me here, when you had that Eavesdropper with you all the time." |
| Technovelgy from Cities in Flight,
by James Blish. Published by Avon in 1957 Additional resources -
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Consider also anti-spying device from Isaac Asimov's 1951 novel Foundation or the vibration screen from Nat Schachner's 1937 story The Shiny One. Would Ray Cumming's eavesdropping ray from his 1931 novel Brigands of the Moon be able to counteract the Eavesdropper?
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