Glossary of Science Fiction Ideas and Inventions

Glossary of Science Fiction Ideas and Inventions
( 1854 Inventions Available)

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Device Name	Book/Story	Author	Date
R. Daneel Olivaw - I, robot	Caves of Steel	Asimov	1953
R2-D2 (Artoo-Detoo) - the original	Star Wars	Lucas	1976
Rabbit-Paper - pregnancy test strip	The Game Players of Titan	Dick	1963
Radiant - just like RFID	The Houses of Iszm	Vance	1954
Radiant Power Receptor - broadcast power receiver	Waldo	Heinlein	1942
Radiant Shield	The Houses of Iszm	Vance	1954
Radiation Garment	Waldo	Heinlein	1942
Radiation Shield	The Ultimate Weapon	Campbell	1936
Radson Skimmer	This Immortal	Zelazny	1966
Raisin - intelligent hearing aid	Nanotime	Kosko	1987
Ram Field - tweaked Bussard Ramjet	Protector	Niven	1973
Ramrobot - automated space exploration	A Gift From Earth	Niven	1968
Ramsbotham Gate - wormhole	Tunnel in the Sky	Heinlein	1955
Ramscoop - pull in hydrogen	World of Ptavvs	Niven	1965
Randominoes	Nymphomation	Noon	2000
Rapid-Transit Hover Blimp	Galactic Pot-Healer	Dick	1969
Rat Thing	Snow Crash	Stephenson	1992
Ray Gun	The Black Star Passes	Campbell	1930
Raytron Apparatus - aerial surveillance	Beyond the Stars	Cummings	1928
Reaction Pistol - zero gee maneuvering	Diamond Planetoid	Giles	1937
Reactive Walls - club scene 2020	Freezone	Shirley	1985
Reading Machine - read while reclining	Stranger in a Strange Land	Heinlein	1961
Reading Plaque - ultrathin display	Earth	Brin	1990
Reading Plate - 50's style flat panel	The Star Beast	Heinlein	1954
Readout Skin - Gutenberg gets tattoos	Steel Beach	Varley	1992
Reality Graphics	A Fire Upon The Deep	Vinge	1992
Reality Tape	The Electric Ant	Dick	1969
Reason Hypervelocity Railgun	Snow Crash	Stephenson	1992
Receptor Tape - very thin microphone	The Face	Vance	1979
Reciprocal Name - cellphone nickname	Return from the Stars	Lem	1961
Recorded News - Tivo for radio in 1889	In the Year 2889	Verne	1889
Recorded Personalities	Mona Lisa Overdrive	Gibson	1988
Recording Eye - interplanetary surveillance	The Man in the Maze	Silverberg	1969
Recording Radio	Four-Day Planet	Piper	1961
Recycler	Starfish	Watts	1999
Refreshing Chamber	Coventry	Heinlein	1940
Refrigeration Tape - ground cooling	Tower of Glass	Silverberg	1970
Refurbished Nervous System - rewired for speed	The Stars My Destination	Bester	1956
Reggie the Bartending Machine - beverage, sir?	The Outpost	Resnick	2002
Relations with Extraterrestrial Life - before the Prime Directive	Ogre	Simak	1944
Remote (or Seeker Remote) - Jedi training device	Star Wars	Lucas	1976
Remote-Cast Snooper	Dune	Herbert	1965
Remotely Operated Auto-targeting Gun (ROAG) - I see you	Quantico	Bear	2007
Repair Robots - helpful droids	The Invincible	Lem	1954
Repellor Anti-Gravity Rays	Armageddon: 2419 A.D.	Nowlan	1928
Replicant - an artificial human	Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?	Dick	1968
Reporting Machine	The Simulacra	Dick	Ace
Residual Poison	Dune	Herbert	1965
Resting Pits	Limits	Niven	1985
Restraining Bolt - keeps robots in check	Star Wars	Lucas	1976
Retinal Implant	The Neutronium Alchemist	Hamilton	1997
Retinal Projection - put the ad right on the eyeball	The Space Merchants	Pohl (w/CM Kornbluth)	1952
Retinal Vid-Screen - implanted news screen	Sales Pitch	Dick	1954
Retro-Rockets - Verne invented them!	From the Earth to the Moon	Verne	1867
Revitalizer Console. - perk up your bloodstream	Millenium	Varley	1983
Rex Regenerator (Mechanotherapist) - heavy duty therapy	Bad Medicine	Sheckley	1956
Rhennius Machine - reverse yourself	Doorways in the Sand	Zelazny	1976
Rhetorizer - the writer's assistant	The Penultimate Truth	Dick	1964
Rifle Range (Virtual Shooting Range) - virtual skeet shooting designed by aliens	Way Station	Simak	1963
Rigid Metallic Clothing - almost an exoskeleton	A Conquest of Two Worlds	Hamilton	1932
Ring Road - mag-lev old-style	Starman Jones	Heinlein	1953
Ringworld - sun-girdling artifact	Ringworld	Niven	1970
RNA Shots - don't read Cliff notes; eat Cliff	A World Out of Time	Niven	1976
Roachster	Sparrowhawk	Easton	1990
Robant Bill Collector Automated bill collection	Now Wait For Last Year	Dick	1966
Robass - a robotic mule	The Quest for Saint Aquin	Boucher	1951
Robbie - mechanical child companion	Robbie	Asimov	1940
Robofish (Mitsubishi Robot Turbot) - robot fish	Slow Life	Swanwick	2002
Robomule	Bill the Galactic Hero	Harrison	1965
Robopark - automated parking garage	Methuselah's Children	Heinlein	1941
Robot - the origin of the term	R.U.R.	Capek	1920
Robot Bar - ancestor of R2D2	Bill the Galactic Hero	Harrison	1965
Robot Bartender - early mention	The Stars My Destination	Bester	1956
Robot Busboy	Lies, Inc.	Dick	1964
Robot Cab Driver - everybody's got problems	A Present for Pat	Dick	1952
Robot Cells (Crystal-Shaped Modules) - robot building blocks	Isaac Asimov's Odyssey : Robot City: Book1	Kube-McDowell	1987
Robot Chef - a creative cook	Robinc	Boucher	1943
Robot Crab - robot gardener	Neuromancer	Gibson	1984
Robot Door - stolid decision-maker	Colony	Dick	1953
Robot Earthworm - spaghettibot	War With The Robots	Harrison	1962
Robot Gardener - gardening robot	War Veteran	Dick	1955
Robot Gun	Aliens	Foster	1986
Robot Judge - before Dred	Robot Justice	Harrison	1959
Robot Lawn Mower - already here	City	Simak	1944
Robot Librarian Filer	The Robot Who Wanted to Know	Harrison	1962
Robot Mice - tiny cleaning machines	The Martian Chronicles	Bradbury	1950
Robot Mother - self-reproducing automaton	The Mechanical Mice	Hugi	1941
Robot Pope - Urbi et Orbi et Digiti	Good News From the Vatican	Silverberg	1971
Robot Probes (Arr-twos) - remote-controlled eyes and ears	Oath of Fealty	Niven (w/J. Pournelle)	1981
Robot Psyche Tester - gestalting device	Colony	Dick	1953
Robot Spectra Analyzer	The Repairman	Harrison	1959
Robot Surgeon	The Bicentennial Man	Asimov	1976
Robot Surgeon-Hand - attached at the wrist	War Veteran	Dick	1955
Robot Tracking Device - preferred surveillance tool of AIs	Vulcan's Hammer	Dick	1960
Robot Voice	Catch That Rabbit	Asimov	1944
Robotic Arm - handy for robots	City	Simak	1944
Robotic Hand	The Door Into Summer	Heinlein	1956
Robotic Horse - magical	The Warlock in Spite of Himself	Stasheff	1969
Robotic Trash Can - watch it	Robot Justice	Harrison	1959
Rocket Gun	Armageddon: 2419 A.D.	Nowlan	1928
Rocket Racing	Habit	del Rey	1939
Rolem (Wrestling Robot) - robot wrestler	This Immortal	Zelazny	1966
Roller	Shadow World	Simak	1957
Rolling Road - public transport	The Roads Must Roll	Heinlein	1940
Rooftop Windmill - renewable energy vision	A Journey In Other Worlds	Astor IV	1894
Rotating House - turn the salon	The Godmakers	Herbert	1972
Roujin Z-0001 - military bed robot	Roujin Z	Otomo	1991
Roving Bomb - RC weaponry	Lost Rocket	Wellman	1941
Ro-Womb - enfold the patient.	The Dream Master	Zelazny	1966
RUMOKO - island builder	My Name is Legion	Zelazny	1976
Runcible - every page an LCD screen	The Diamond Age	Stephenson	1995

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