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"...science fiction is sort of like a sociological genome. It's a huge range of possible futures, most of them useless; some vital. You never really know in advance."
- Peter Watts
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| Pressor (Pressor Beam) | ||
| A force-field beam that pushes, rather than pulls. |
| Onward and upward flashed the gigantic duplex cone, its entire whirling mass laced and latticed together—into one mammoth unit by green tractor beams and red pressors. |
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by E.E. 'Doc' Smith. Published by Amazing Stories in 1931 Additional resources -
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The phrase pressor beam is also used in the same book:
We'll have them in three days, and it ought to be fairly simple to dope out the opposite of a tractor, too - a pusher or presser beam.
The opposite of a pressor beam is, of course, a tractor beam.
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