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"In science fiction one can say a great many things that are unpalatable, … because it's expressed as science fiction you can slip it past their defenses."
- Frederik Pohl
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| Suit-Radio | ||
| A means of communication between two individuals clad in space suits. |
Very early use of this term; I think the idea was used a generation earlier, but I can't find the reference.
| "But I'll catch up," he promised as he made connection between his suit-radio and the Station communicator system. |
| Technovelgy from The Long Way,
by George O. Smith. Published by Astounding Science Fiction in 1944 Additional resources -
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Compare to the Aerial Telegraph from Garret P. Serviss' 1898 novel Edison's Conquest of Mars, the suit-phone from The Sargasso of Space (1931) by Edmond Hamilton and the audiphone from Blood of the Moon (1936) by Ray Cummings.
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