Twelve Hours To Live by Jack Williamson:
Science Fiction Inventions, Technology and Ideas

Action yarn depicts pirates of the spaceways.


('Twelve Hours to Live' by Jack Williamson)

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Magnetic Clamps
Used for attaching your craft to a larger spaceship.

Matter Annihilation Ray
A beam that forces electrons into protons, thereby destroying ordinary matter.

Neutronic Dust
What's left over when you've annihilated matter.

Protonite - for space exploration
Radioactive fuel for spacecraft.

Reaction-Motors
A spacecraft engine that works by firing matter out at high speed.

Space-Liner - first use of phrase
A passenger ship in space.

 

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