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"Science fiction has gotten more accurate as we've gotten closer to the present, because science fiction stories have not only attracted, but also generated current scientists."
- Larry Niven
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| Historical Listening Machine | ||
| Device can hear sounds from down through the ages. |
Enjoyable premise plays out, with a surprising ending.
| "After all, Weatherby, sound is vibration, and vibrations, once set in motion, never die."
I heard sounds that no one living for ages had heard; I heard voices of those who had been dust for centuries.
 ('The Machine That Knew Too Much' by A.T. Locke) I heard ancient Greeks discussing politics in the Forum, and Romans talking of war outside a temple. Sounds and voices came to me, out of that miraculous cabinet, from all ages and from all parts of the world... |
| Technovelgy from The Machine That Knew Too Much,
by A.T. Locke. Published by Astounding Science Fiction in 1933 Additional resources -
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