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"If I had to get a new Ph.D. now, I'd get it in polymer engineering - the manipulation of matter."
- Bart Kosko
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| Dermal-Mist Spray | ||
| Very refreshing for suburbanites. |
| "Incredible," said Dorothy Lawrence, who had finished her drink, and now basked in the dermal-mist spray that descended over her virtually unclad body from an automatic jet above the couch. |
| Technovelgy from Prominent Author,
by Philip K. Dick. Published by If in 1954 Additional resources -
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Compare to the medical dermal spray from DIck's 1960 novel Doctor Futurity.
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