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Science Fiction Dictionary: Ideas, Terms and Technology
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| Device Name | Book/Story | Author | Date |
| Kamikaze Andy An android that is designed as an assassination weapon. |
Tekwar | Shatner | 1989 |
| Karatand A special glove made of impact-sensitive plastic. |
Stand on Zanzibar | Brunner | 1968 |
| Kemplerer (Klemperer) Rosette Planets without a sun; they orbit a central point. |
Ringworld | Niven | 1970 |
| Key Club A social club made exclusive by teleportation booth; may be in a chain with other physically identical locations. |
Flash Crowd | Niven | 1972 |
| Keyboard With Changing Keys A computer keyboard with keys faced with little displays, so the label could change based on the application or language. |
Imperial Earth | Clarke | 1976 |
| Killalc Pills Counteracts the effects of alcohol consumption. |
The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge | Harrison | 1970 |
| Killer Robot An autonomous robot made for the express purpose of killing living creatures. |
Rust | Kelleam | 1939 |
| Kinagram Small print-size icons that presented a moving image. |
Anathem | Stephenson | 2008 |
| Kinetiscope Appliance A small object that could show a variety of artificially created or extrapolated images. |
When the Sleeper Wakes | Wells | 1899 |
| Kingdom in a Box An entire civilization in miniature - in an interactive box. |
The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age | Lem | 1965 |
| King's Free Park A park in which anarchy reigned; a very long, narrow park. |
Cloak of Anarchy | Niven | 1972 |
| Kink-Spring A device that stores energy with near-perfect efficiency. |
The Calorie Man | Bacigalupi | 2005 |
| Kinotrope Small bits of painted wood in a grid that spin around to form different pixelated images. |
The Difference Engine | Gibson (w/B. Sterling) | 1990 |
| Kipple The collection of useless bits of trash we wallow in; all the paper and junk that is not recycled. |
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | Dick | 1968 |
| Kitchen Korner Just exactly what futurists say you're going to get, like or not, in a refrigerator. |
Idoru | Gibson | 1996 |
| Kite-Copter Car An observation car suspended below a device that supplies lift. |
The Kokod Warriors | Vance | 1952 |
| KloraDerm Human skin variant that contains chlorophyll to provide energy. |
Old Man's War | Scalzi | 2005 |
| Knife Missile A sharp-edged weapon that can maneuver in space. |
Use of Weapons | Banks | 1990 |
| Knockdown Cabin A portable shelter; had solid walls and could be assembled quickly. |
Coventry | Heinlein | 1940 |
| Knowledge Engine The first reference to a machine that could create sentences or write books. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift | 1726 |
| Korsakov's A type of mind control imposed on prisoners to make them more manageable during their prison time. |
Mona Lisa Overdrive | Gibson | 1988 |
| KR-3 A drug that breaks down the ability of the brain to perceive space and physical objects properly, or in sequence; a new universe opens. |
Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said | Dick | 1974 |
| Krimskell Fiber A "claw" fiber which will rubs against itself in such a way that, the tighter the rope is pulled, the stronger the knot becomes. |
Dune | Herbert | 1965 |
| Kuang Grade Mark Eleven Penetration Program Chinese virus software for breaking the ICE. |
Neuromancer | Gibson | 1984 |
| Kundrenaline Revives even a dead man's heart. |
The Hands of Aten | Winter | 1931 |
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