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"Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it."
- Robert Heinlein
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| Test Box | ||
| A remote-controlled device for capturing small objects from open space. |
| ...Dumar released the torpedo-like test box through the small airlock fashioned for that purpose. It was controlled by radio so it kept pace with our ship as its door hung open like the jaw of a monster of the deep, waiting for some hapless victim to swim into its maw. A swarm of the staring, unblinking lights closed about it as though to examine it. Dummy's great finger swooped won upon a key of the small control box held in his hand. The door of the transparent test box flew shut but there was nothing held within it...
For minutes we fished and angled for specimens of the impossible beings. It was constantly becoming more evident how intelligent and clever were the eyes of the Devil's Pocket. But snap again went the jaws of the box and there inside were four bright tiny prisoners, darting like fireflys against the transparent sides. Dumar drew the test box through the air-lock. |
| Technovelgy from The Devil's Pocket,
by F.E. Hardart. Published by Astonishing Stories in 1940 Additional resources -
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