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Stratospheric Traffic
Bad traffic at every level.
(From The Great God Awto [1940] by Clark Ashton Smith)
Mixed Men
A mostly human being, but with an additional robot brain.
(From The Storm [1943] by A.E. van Vogt)
Hydroponics
Growing food without soil, typically from water saturated with nutrients.
(From The Hydroponic Monster [1940] by Maria Moravsky)
Rocket Float
A sea-going floating platform for rocket launches.
(From Too Many Boards! [1931] by Harl Vincent)
Self-Sustaining Nuclear Reaction
An 'atomic fire' is started that consumes all matter in reach!
(From Atomic Fire [1931] by Raymond Z. Gallun)
Chronoscopy
Using a device to view different points in time.
(From The Dead Past [1956] by Isaac Asimov)
Space Craft
A ship that travels through the airless void of space.
(From Night-Thing [1929] by Wilford Allen)
Clone
The aggregate of individual organisms descended by asexual reproduction from a single sexually produced individual.
(From The Clone [1959] by Theodore L Thomas)
Hypersee
Faster than light.
(From The Best of Fences [1956] by Gordon Randall Garrett)
Transport Walkers
Multilegged transport vehicles big enough to carry one person.
(From A Little Further Up The Fox... [1987] by George M. Ewing)
Skydozer
Small spacecraft used to remove orbital debris.
(From A Little Further Up The Fox... [1987] by George M. Ewing)
Booklegger
A smuggler of books.
(From Between Planets [1951] by Robert Heinlein)
Artificial Eyes
Eyes that are the duplicate of what humans are born with, produced entirely artificially from elements.
(From Synthetic [1930] by Charles Cloukey)
Sound-Killing Air Fluid
A means to eliminate all of the noise made by machines in a city, leaving the voices of human beings.
(From The Noise Killer [1930] by A.M. McNeill)
Synthetic Life
Living animals made from scratch using inorganic elements.
(From Synthetic [1930] by Charles Cloukey)
Timeslip
When humans keep time on Mars, they must work with the extra forty minutes in each day.
(From Red Mars [1992] by Spider Robinson)
Electric Plane
An airplane powered entirely by electricity.
(From Synthetic [1930] by Charles Cloukey)
Bone Conduction Receiver
A concealed radio receiver.
(From Sixth Column [1941] by Anson MacDonald)
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