The Star-Roamers by Edmond Hamilton:
Science Fiction Inventions, Technology and Ideas

"An interplanetary story of many thrills — a battle of leaping flame on the worlds of Alpha Centauri, our nearest neighbor in space"


('The Star-Roamers' by Edmond Hamilton)

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Belt Automatic-Equalizers
The wearer's experience of gravity will be just like Earth's.

Checker-City
A city planned as a checker-board of alternating vegetation and buildings.

Etheric Propulsion-Vibrations
Faster-than-light travel.

Space-Sailor
A spaceman; someone who makes his living by voyaging in space.

Tubular Space-Gangway
A means of traversing the short distance between two ships in space.

 

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