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| Energy Screen | ||
| A field of force. |
Possibly the first use of this term.
| And they've already spotted us with their spy rays and energy screens. |
| From Far Centaurus,
by A.E. van Vogt. Published by Astounding Science-Fiction in 1944 Additional resources -
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Compare with the force-field from John Campbell's 1931 story Islands of Space, the barrier from Robert Heinlein's 1940 novella Coventry and the Langston field from Niven and Pournelle's 1974 classic The Mote in God's Eye.
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