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Explore the inventions, technology and ideas of science fiction writers at Technovelgy (that's tech-novel-gee!) - over 4,250 are available. Use the Timeline of Science Fiction Invention or the alphabetic Glossary of Science Fiction Technology to see them all, look for the category that interests you, or browse by favorite author / book. Browse more than 6,800 Science Fiction in the News articles.

Prairie Madness - And Space Sickness
'Space-sickness is one of the most unpleasant sensations that a human being can experience. Not all are subject to it...' - Hugo Gernsback, 1911. (9/29/2026)
Can Stratospheric Aerosol Injection Control The Weather?
'...I saw a nice black heavy-looking cloud sailing by just now, and I can get the electrical machine out in five minutes to draw it down.' - Jane Webb Loudon, 1828. (9/27/2026)
SETI Suggests Prospecting The Solar System Without Landing
'From a distance it could resolve the cosmic rays reflected from various substances.' - Philip Nowlan w/D. Calkins, 1929. (9/25/2026)
Wolfram Alpha Mathematica Predicted by Science Fiction in 1948!
'The answer to the dumb student's prayer.' - Margaret St. Clair, 1948 (9/25/2026)
Cislunar Space And The Space Lanes of Golden Age Science Fiction
'He had travelled the space-lanes of the solar system for the greater part of his life...' - Edmond Hamilton, 1928. (9/23/2026)
NASA Moonbase Update
'The dinner was excellent. It was completely vegetarian — grown in specially prepared gardens in this Moon base...' - Jim Vanny, 1931. (9/21/2026)
Neuralink Will Allow Humans To Communicate With ... Animals?
'Telepaths had their sensitiveness enlarged to an immense range by the pin-sets, which were telepathic amplifiers adapted to the mammal mind.' - Cordwainer Smith, 1953. (9/19/2026)
Special Lights For Driverless Cars!
'That light is actually the Anamorphic Equalizer...' (9/15/2026)
'Old People Began to Cross The Continent In Their Own Cars'
'It was a relief to enter one of the comfortable autos, whisper a direction down the tube, and just know that you would be taken to your destination in the quickest, safest, and cheapest manner.' - Dr. David H. Keller, 1935. (9/13/2026)
Harrison Bergeron, Illustrated And Practiced
'But he didn't get very far with it before another noise in his ear radio scattered his thoughts. George winced...' - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., 1961. (9/11/2026)
Starfall Manufacturing Drugs In Space
'The vast spinning sphere of Factory in the Sky loomed above and ahead of us, gleaming white against the unfathomable jet depths of surrounding space.' - Basil Wells, 1941. (9/9/2026)
The Solar Oberth Slingshot
'And if it doesn’t work,' inquired Lazarus, 'what does that make us? Sunspots?' - Robert Heinlein, 1941. (9/7/2026)
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Police Hooks
Police in dirigibles use hooks to capture criminals.
(From La police en l’an 2000 (Police in the Year 2000) [1910] by Léon  Gaumont)
Flying Police Car
A dirigible paddy wagon for spotting and capturing criminals.
(From La police en l’an 2000 (Police in the Year 2000) [1910] by Léon  Gaumont)
Nerve Wire
In which silver wire could be attached to living nerves, making possible direct stimulation.
(From The City of the Living Dead [1930] by Laurence  Manning (w/F. Pratt))
Adventure Machines
Presenting a false life to the optic nerve, and later the other instruments of the senses.
(From The City of the Living Dead [1930] by Laurence  Manning (w/F. Pratt))
Marvel-Metal Eyes
Mechanical eyes with photo-sensitive cells.
(From The City of the Living Dead [1930] by Laurence  Manning (w/F. Pratt))
Sapient Being Rights
Discovery of sapient races puts planets off limits for development.
(From Little Fuzzy [1962] by H. Beam  Piper)
Lunar Colony
A permanent base on the moon.
(From The Lunar Trilogy: On the Silver Globe [1903] by Jerzy  Żuławski)
Dream Palace (Sleep Palace)
A vast building full of wired-in sleepers!
(From The Man Who Awoke - The City of Sleep [1933] by Laurence  Manning)
Matter Machines
Devices that can turn one form of matter into any other complex form.
(From The Man Who Awoke - The Elixir [1933] by Laurence  Manning)
Master Records
The substance of dreams.
(From The Man Who Awoke - The City of Sleep [1933] by Laurence  Manning)
Food of the Gods
Delicious food manufactured from sand and gravel.
(From The Man Who Awoke - The City of Sleep [1933] by Laurence  Manning)
Electrical Rain Machine
A device that can procure rain from passing clouds.
(From The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century [1828] by Jane Webb  Loudon)
Glass Coffin
A special pod for re-entering the earth's atmosphere, and dropping an individual to the Earth safely.
(From The Space Coffin [1932] by A. Rowley  Hilliard)
Cosmograph
A "radio" using light rays, for space communication.
(From Tyrant of the Red World [1932] by Richard  Tooker)
Sun-Shutters
Blocking the light in a spacecraft.
(From Tyrant of the Red World [1932] by Richard  Tooker)
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