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"the [science fiction] writer should be able to convince the reader (and himself) that the wonders he is describing really can come true...and that gets tricky when you take a good, hard look at the world around you."
- Frederik Pohl
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| Tannin-Secretion Pills | ||
| Artificially darkens skin, for skin protection. |
| All my life I've used tannin-secretion pills for protection against ultraviolet, so that my skin color has varied from its normal pinkish-white (I'm an albino) to (under blue-white stars) tuxedo black. |
| Technovelgy from Crashlander,
by Larry Niven. Published by Del Rey in 1994 Additional resources -
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Compare to selected melanin boosting from Neuromancer by William Gibson.
Thanks to Ted Ewan for contributing the quote.
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