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"We're about 20 minutes away from the point where Clarke's law kicks in and technology becomes indistinguishable from magic."
- Peter Watts
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| Interchangeable Hands | ||
| Specialized manual extremities. |
| From the ship stepped Palmer Eldritch.
...his right arm was artificial. Twenty years ago in a hunting accident on Callisto he had lost the original; this one was of course superior in that it provided a specialized variety of interchangeable hands. At the moment Eldritch made use of the five-finger humanoid manual extremity; except for its metallic shine it might have been organic. |
| Technovelgy from The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch,
by Philip K. Dick. Published by Doubleday in 1965 Additional resources -
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Compare to the specialized arms from Robert Heinlein's 1966 novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
See also the mechanical hand from Buck Rogers, 2430 AD (1929) by Philip Nowlan (w/D. Calkins),
microhands from Microhands (Микроруки) (1931) by Boris Zhitkov,
iron fingers from The Death's Head Meteor (1931) by Neil R. Jones,
robot hands from The Iron World (1937) by Otis Adelbert Kline,
waldoes from Waldo (1942) by Robert Heinlein,
robot surgeon-hand from War Veteran (1955) by Philip K. Dick,
robotic hand from The Door Into Summer (1956) by Robert Heinlein,
surgical hand from Clans of the Alphane Moon (1964) by Philip K. Dick and
office hand from The Human Blend (2010) by Alan Dean Foster.
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