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Polyfrequency Neutralizer |
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Dissolves projected solidographs (holograms). |
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How can you get rid of telesolidograph images, designed to terrify your allies?
A vast wolfish shape materialized from the misty gray of the walls at the other end of the
Chamber. Its eyes were like two sooty hearths filled with dying embers. Toward the Council table it
stalked, big as a house, the very incarnation of skulking, slavering destruction...
“Dissolve it!” Goniface called sharply to Cousin Deth. Then he rose, too. “The thing is only a
telesolidographic projection—as all of you must realize!”...
(Telesolidograph from 'Gather Darkness' by Fritz Leiber)
Partially reassured, the archpriests noted that there was indeed a certain transparency to the
advancing monster, so you could dimly see through it to the wall beyond; and it was a ghostly
slaver that dripped in ropes from the gigantic jaws. Moreover, the great paws with their foot-long
nails seemed sometimes to step a little above the floor and sometimes a little below...
“There was, of course, no need to dissolve it,” said Goniface coldly. “I merely wished to
demonstrate conclusively its solidographic nature. Our Fourth Circle brethren were able to dissipate
it with the recently invented polyfrequency neutralizer. The thing was purely photonic in nature and
yielded quickly to an application of the principle of interference. All phantasms employed by the
so-called New Witchcraft are of a similar sort.
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Technovelgy from Gather, Darkness!,
by Fritz Leiber.
Published by Astounding Science Fiction in 1943
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