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Glossary
of Science Fiction Ideas and Inventions
(
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 |
| Garbage Mine - there's gold in them heaps | Earth | Brin | 1990 |
| Garbage Screen - chaff in space | Space Tug | Leinster | 1953 |
| Garbage-can Banger | The Zap Gun | Dick | 1965 |
| Gas Giant - coined a phrase | Solar Plexus | Blish | 1952 |
| Gauzy - a tent whose fabric is one molecule thick. | This Immortal | Zelazny | 1966 |
| Gee Bath - waterbeds for space craft | The Mote in God's Eye | Niven (w/J. Pournelle) | 1974 |
| General Bodies Tortoise - terrapin fast | Sparrowhawk | Easton | 1990 |
| General Products Hull - impervious key to space travel | Neutron Star | Niven | 1966 |
| Genetic Ark - conserve the genome | Earth | Brin | 1990 |
| Genetically Modified Food - by little people | Methuselah's Children | Heinlein | 1941 |
| Geodynes - pushing against the fabric of space | The Cometeers | Williamson | 1936 |
| Geometric Modeling - eighteenth century NURBS | Gulliver's Travels | Swift | 1726 |
| Geosynchronous Satellite - invention of idea | V2 for Ionospheric Research | Clarke | 1945 |
| Geriatric Rooming-House - swept aside | Galactic Pot-Healer | Dick | 1969 |
| Gesture-Controlled Device | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Adams | 1979 |
| Ghola - night of the living Duncan | Dune Messiah | Herbert | 1969 |
| Ghost Trap | Ghostbusters | Ramis | 1984 |
| Giant Flat Panel Display | Things To Come | Wells | 1936 |
| Gigagnostotron | The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age | Lem | 1965 |
| Gillfluid - liquid breathing | The Algebraist | Banks | 2004 |
| Glass Bees - tiny automatons | The Glass Bees | Junger | 1957 |
| Global Climate Control | A Journey In Other Worlds | Astor IV | 1894 |
| Glowglobe - the original track lighting | Dune | Herbert | 1965 |
| Glowstone - great at parties | Dying of the Light | Martin | 1977 |
| Gnome - built into life support | Millenium | Varley | 1983 |
| Gnostotron | The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age | Lem | 1965 |
| Gobathian - full body healing | Time is the Simplest Thing | Simak | 1961 |
| Go-Buggy | The Godmakers | Herbert | 1972 |
| Gogglelike Televisors | The Robot and the Lady | Wellman | 1938 |
| Golden Lights - track lighting without the track | Dune | Herbert | 1965 |
| Golden Shuttles (Mechanical Mice) - tiny robots | The Mechanical Mice | Hugi | 1941 |
| Gold-Fish-Bowl World | Star Maker | Stapledon | 1937 |
| Government Data Transparency | The Shockwave Rider | Brunner | 1975 |
| Government Lethal Chamber | The Repairer of Reputations | Chambers | 1895 |
| GPP Genuine People Personalities | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Adams | 1979 |
| GPS Sunglasses - you are here | All Tomorrow's Parties | Gibson | 1999 |
| Graluz - breeding pond for frog people | The Dosadi Experiment | Herbert | 1977 |
| Grantline Comptometer - long before Mathematica | Beyond the Stars | Cummings | 1928 |
| Granton Motor | Into the Meteorite Orbit | Kelly | 1933 |
| Grapple Tracks - auto parking | The Dosadi Experiment | Herbert | 1977 |
| Grass Carpet | The Sirens of Titan | Vonnegut | 1959 |
| Gravanol - good at high accelerations | QRM - Interplanetary | Smith | 1942 |
| Gravitational Wave Viewer - catch the wave | Two Planets | Lasswitz | 1972 |
| Gravitic Repulsion Elevator - going up | Foundation | Asimov | 1951 |
| Gravito-Statoscope | The Emperor of the Stars | Schachner (w. AL Zagat) | 1931 |
| Gravity Assist - very early use | Brigands of the Moon | Cummings | 1931 |
| Gravity Detector | The Cometeers | Williamson | 1936 |
| Gravity Lens - see the stars | Protector | Niven | 1973 |
| Gravity Neutralizing Disks | Fessenden's Worlds | Hamilton | 1937 |
| Gravity Tube - e-z store | Chindi | McDevitt | 2002 |
| Gravity Web - keep gravity to a minimum | Whipping Star | Herbert | 1969 |
| Gravity-assisted Subway - the shortest possible distance | A World Out of Time | Niven | 1976 |
| Gravity-Simulator Harness - maintain muscle and bone in space | Space Tug | Leinster | 1953 |
| Great Ear | Our Friends From Frolix 8 | Dick | 1970 |
| Green Bullet - carry your mentor with you | Fahrenheit 451 | Bradbury | 1953 |
| Grill-Screen Adaptor | Foster, You're Dead | Dick | 1955 |
| Grip Shoes - velcro space gear | 2001: A Space Odyssey | Clarke | 1968 |
| Grok - a Martian sees and knows | Stranger in a Strange Land | Heinlein | 1961 |
| Groundcar (or Ground Car) - the old-fashioned present | Galactic Patrol | Smith | 1937 |
| Group Ego - a kind of group mind | Methuselah's Children | Heinlein | 1941 |
| Guard Robot | The Hood Maker ('Immunity') | Dick | 1955 |
| Guide-Beam | Dr. Futurity | Dick | 1960 |
| Guided Missile Control Station | Between Planets | Heinlein | 1951 |
| Gyrocar (Gyro) | The Ring | Anthony (w/R. Margroff) | 1969 |
| Gyroscope Seats | The Black Star Passes | Campbell | 1930 |
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