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Survey Craft Light duty ship for use in atmosphere, to explore planets.
(From The Rull [1948] by A.E. van Vogt) |
Click-Band Worn on the wrist, it helps you locate your transport.
(From The Meddler [1954] by Philip K. Dick) |
Air-Mine Fight invasion from above with an analogous method to mining the surface of the sea.
(From The Space Visitors [1939] by Edmond Hamilton) |
Nerve Control Lines Designs that take control of human nervous systems.
(From The Rull [1948] by A.E. van Vogt) |
Cybercab An autonomous taxi.
(From Vacuum Flowers [1987] by Michael Swanwick) |
Hand Grip Means of pulling oneself through a space ship at zero gravity.
(From Islands of Space [1931] by John W. Campbell) |
Tubecar A pneumatic tube that carries people.
(From The Faceless Men [1948] by Leo Zagat) |
Beltway A moving sidewalk.
(From The Faceless Men [1948] by Leo Zagat) |
Corrosite Gas A highly corrosive gas.
(From The Machine That Thought [1939] by William Callahan) |
Synthetic Intellect A machine mind, created and improved by more primitive machine minds.
(From The Machine That Thought [1939] by William Callahan) |
Galaxy Superbrain The idea that the galaxy itself is a conscious entity.
(From Short-Wave Madness [1939] by Robert Castle) |
Mech An alternative name for simplified robot.
(From Helen O'Loy [1938] by Lester del Rey) |
Artificial Skin Tight-fitting material that keeps the heat of the body from escaping into space.
(From Between Earth and Moon [1930] by Otfrid von Hanstein) |
Fixed Star Advertising In which the positions of the fixed stars are changed to form advertising.
(From Pi in the Sky [1945] by Frederic Brown) |
Star-Globe (3D Map) A celestial star map, done in three dimensions.
(From Pi in the Sky [1945] by Frederic Brown) |
Individual Flyer Personal antigravity and wing unit.
(From Asteroid Pirates [1938] by Royal W. Heckman) |
Interplanetary Restaurant An eatery and watering hole designed for use by a variety of space-faring races.
(From Asteroid Pirates [1938] by Royal W. Heckman) |
Automaton Steam Surgeon Mechanized surgery.
(From The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century [1828] by Jane Webb Loudon) |
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