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"The wealth of the universe is all over your head. We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth..."
- Larry Niven
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| Anadrenalin | ||
| Has the opposite effect of adrenalin. |
| He even discovered a couple of new ones, especially one he calls "anadrenalin", because it has just the opposite effect of adrenalin. Instead of stimulating the heard violently, it retards the heart and the whole neural system to infinitesimal activity. |
| Technovelgy from A Race Through Time,
by Donald Wandrei. Published by Astounding Science Fiction in 1933 Additional resources -
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'Aerostat meant anything that hung in the air. This was an easy trick to pull off nowadays.'
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'Annealed in any shape for a time, and codified, the structure of that shape is retained down to the molecules.'
It's not really polite to tear the limbs off robots.
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'I opened the oblong box, where lay the automatons side by side...'
'They tied the memory to the bloodline and that was their record!'
