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" I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences. And if I feel like going on, or if something turns me on I'll just keep writing till I'm written out."
- Roger Zelazny

Gee Bath  
  Essentially a waterbed designed to help older or untrained people cope with high acceleration aboard spacecraft.  

Both Niven and Pournelle are Heinlein fans; they may well have remembered this one from RAH novels.

At four gravities, nobody walked, nobody lifted anything.,,

Bury was in the gee bath: a film of highly elastic Mylar over liquid. Only his face and hands showed above the curved surface. His face looked old - it almost showed his true age.

Technovelgy from The Mote in God's Eye, by Larry Niven (w/J. Pournelle).
Published by Simon & Schuster in 1974
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For the earliest example of this piece of technovelgy, see cider press, from Double Star, by Robert Heinlein.

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