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Science Fiction Dictionary: Ideas, Terms and Technology
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| Device Name | Book/Story | Author | Date |
| Yardsticks Smaller people take up less space. |
This Crowded Earth | Bloch | 1958 |
| Yeast Steak Growing custom strains of yeast as food. |
The Evitable Conflict | Asimov | 1950 |
| Yeast-Beast Machine A device for growing meat in a vat. |
Natulife | Brin | 1994 |
| Yeast-Culture Vats Using cultured yeast as the basis for food production. |
Caves of Steel | Asimov | 1953 |
| Young Blood - New Blood For Old Replacing the blood plasma of older people with material from younger people. |
Methuselah's Children | Heinlein | 1941 |
| Young-Forever A very particular formula for human immortality, which solves the most serious attendant problem (population explosion). |
A World Out of Time | Niven | 1976 |
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