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"What I have in my stories is ethics. Ethics and morality are very different cups of tea. I adhere to a very strict rigor of personal ethics and I demand it of those around me as well."
- Harlan Ellison
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| Meteorite Deflector | ||
| A means of pushing aside asteroids that get in the path of your space ship. |
Probably the earliest use of the term "meteorite deflector" in science fiction, but not the first use of "deflector" (see below).
| By evening Chick and Flynn were firm friends; they were talking about reaction-motors, meteorite deflectors, three-dimensional sextants, and such things with a fondness that only the two of them felt. |
| Technovelgy from On Board the Martian Liner,
by Miles J. Breuer. Published by Amazing Stories in 1931 Additional resources -
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Another early quote, this one from Murray Leinster's The Ethical Equations (1945):
Compare to the deflector shields in George Lucas' Star Wars. Also, compare to the idea of a meteor-spotting radar from George O. Smith's 1943 short story Recoil.
See deflector from Islands in the Air (1929) by Morrow.
The blasters are those ravening beams of destruction which take care of recalcitrant meteorites in a spaceship's course when the deflectors can't handle them.
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