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"...a few centuries of coherent humanist thought, set against a million odd years of evolved killer ape tendency. No-one's going to give you very good odds on humanism, are they?"
- Richard Morgan
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| Reversal Coils | ||
| Provide both entry into a negative universe and propulsion. |
| "The atomic generators are feeding nine million kilowatts into the coils," he said. "The reversal field has already reached six billion kallent-volts. A little more—I don't know how much— and we shall undergo the atomic inver- sion, into the negative Universe. Or else, if I have failed, we shall be de- stroyed in a stupendous explosion of atomic energy."
"If—" whispered Lundoon. "If we live, -what then?" "If we are still alive," the haggard man said, "we shall search for Venice Kallent. The psychode, I hope, will guide us, to her. And the reversal coils, at a different frequency, generate an unidirectional field that serves for pro- pulsion in space |
| Technovelgy from The Infinite Enemy,
by Jack Williamson. Published by Thrilling Wonder Stories in 1938 Additional resources -
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