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Glossary
of Science Fiction Ideas and Inventions
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1854 Inventions Available)
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
| Device Name | Book/Story | Author | Date |
| Babble Machine - you know | When the Sleeper Wakes | Wells | 1899 |
| Babel Fish - improbable translator | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Adams | 1979 |
| Babel-17 - words are telling | Babel 17 | Delany | 1968 |
| Bacteria-Destroying Radiation | Dr. Futurity | Dick | 1960 |
| Ballisticules - nanomachines throw their weight around | The Diamond Age | Stephenson | 1995 |
| Bambakias Hotel - help it come into being | Distraction | Sterling | 1998 |
| Bank Chip - a smart credit card | Mona Lisa Overdrive | Gibson | 1988 |
| Barrels of Air | The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century | Loudon | 1828 |
| Barrier (Force Field) - force field fence | Coventry | Heinlein | 1940 |
| Barytrine Field - planet moving | Troubled Star | Smith | 1952 |
| Bat Wings - enable personal flight | Limits | Niven | 1985 |
| Bats' Cave | The Menace From Earth | Heinlein | 1957 |
| Battery-Powered 3D Comic Book | The Zap Gun | Dick | 1965 |
| Battle Language | Dune | Herbert | 1965 |
| Battle Tank | Cities in Flight | Blish | 1957 |
| Battleroom - ultimate antigrav gaming | Ender's Game | Card | 1985 |
| Beanstalk | Friday | Heinlein | 1982 |
| Bedog - a comfy canine | The Dosadi Experiment | Herbert | 1977 |
| Bee Cam | City of Pearl | Traviss | 2004 |
| Bee Zapper | Earth | Brin | 1990 |
| Beetle - a balloon with a shell | Saturn's Race | Niven | 2000 |
| Belt Sword - bendable weapon | All Tomorrow's Parties | Gibson | 1999 |
| Beta Beam Satellite | Limits | Niven | 1985 |
| Betrization | Return from the Stars | Lem | 1961 |
| Bibs - cold storage for people | Cantata 140 | Dick | 1964 |
| Big Computer - wide-screen Jehovah | Millenium | Varley | 1983 |
| Big Flue | Fahrenheit 451 | Bradbury | 1953 |
| Big Push - miles long slingshot | Limits | Niven | 1985 |
| Biltong Life Form | Pay for the Printer | Dick | 1956 |
| Bio-Energy - produce electricity from organic material | Gulliver's Travels | Swift | 1726 |
| Bio-Fabric - living cloth | Say Goodby to the Wind | Ballard | 1970 |
| Bioform House - pumpkin house | Sparrowhawk | Easton | 1990 |
| Biological Circuit Fabrication | The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe | Unknown | 1984 |
| Biological Package Probe - automaton Johnny Appleseed | A World Out of Time | Niven | 1976 |
| Biological Warfare - first use of the concept in fiction | The War of the Worlds | Wells | 1898 |
| Biologics - organic computing | Blood Music | Bear | 1984 |
| Biolution - biological manufacturing | The Tels | Black | 2003 |
| Bionic Arm - $6M man arm | Cyborg | Caidin | 1972 |
| Bionic Legs | Cyborg | Caidin | 1972 |
| Biosoft | Count Zero | Gibson | 1986 |
| Biot | Rendezvous With Rama | Clarke | 1972 |
| Birthing egg - IVF without the bother | Nanotime | Kosko | 1987 |
| Black Power - solar power in a spray can | The Woman in Del Rey Crater | Niven | 1995 |
| Blacknet - antisocial networking | Halting State | Stross | 2007 |
| Blast Rifle | Exiles of the Stratosphere | Long, Jr. | 1937 |
| Blaster - a deadly energy weapon. | When the Green Star Waned | Dyalhis | 1925 |
| Blaupunkt Holostage - a tabletop 3D projector | Snake-Eyes | Maddox | 1986 |
| Blithe | Anathem | Stephenson | 2008 |
| Blue Collar Bot | The Velvet Glove | Harrison | 1956 |
| Blurbflies (Sing. Blurbfly) - corporate gadflies create a buzz | Nymphomation | Noon | 2000 |
| Boat-Tree | The Houses of Iszm | Vance | 1954 |
| Bohemias - a cultural incubator | All Tomorrow's Parties | Gibson | 1999 |
| Boink Biosensor - handheld | The Cobra Event | Preston | 1997 |
| Bokanovsky's Process | Brave New World | Huxley | 1932 |
| Boob Cube - 3D TV is no better | The Best of all Possible Wars | Niven | 1998 |
| Book of the Kalends - no author, no title | Galactic Pot-Healer | Dick | 1969 |
| Boomer Park - where we're going | Nanotime | Kosko | 1987 |
| Boosterspice - anti geriatric drug | Ringworld Engineers | Niven | 1980 |
| Boppers - robots do their own thing | Wetware | Rucker | 1988 |
| Bore-Pellets | Foster, You're Dead | Dick | 1955 |
| Boulder | Cantata 140 | Dick | 1964 |
| Bounce Tube - pneumatic tube system for people | Double Star | Heinlein | 1956 |
| Brainlock - life in the now | Mona Lisa Overdrive | Gibson | 1988 |
| Breathing Dresses | A Honeymoon In Space | Griffith | 1901 |
| Breed Humans For Machines | The Machine Stops | Forster | 1909 |
| Briefcase Computer - early reference | Inherit the Stars | Hogan | 1977 |
| Briefcase Console - the original notebook computer | Oath of Fealty | Pournelle (w/L. Niven) | 1981 |
| Broomstick | Islands in the Sky | Clarke | 1952 |
| Broomstick Speedster | Waldo | Heinlein | 1942 |
| Browser Paper - one page IE | Rainbows End | Vinge | 2006 |
| Bubble - undersea elevator | Saturn's Race | Niven | 2000 |
| Bubble Car - does it come in moiré? | A World Out of Time | Niven | 1976 |
| Bubble City | My Name is Legion | Zelazny | 1976 |
| Bubblehead - big-head brainiacs | The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch | Dick | 1965 |
| Bugged Money - money rigged for surveillance | Distraction | Sterling | 1998 |
| Bullet-guard Overalls | Kiln People | Brin | 2002 |
| Burbclave - autonomous suburban enclave | Snow Crash | Stephenson | 1992 |
| Bussard Ramjet - hydrogen ramscoop | A World Out of Time | Niven | 1976 |
| Butcher Plant - a plant that grows steaks | Time is the Simplest Thing | Simak | 1961 |
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