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"in 1974 I experienced an invasion of my mind by a transcendentally rational mind, as if I had been insane all my life and suddenly I had become sane."
- Philip K. Dick
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| Voxcoder | ||
| Device for secure communication. |
| "I get it," Finch had said dryly. He was seething. Being executed was one thing, but being forced to serve the Secret Police was something entirely different. "How do I contact you?"
"With this." Bane had handed him a short, thick brass tube with a press-stud on top. "You know Tick-Tap, don't you?" He brandished another tube. "We call these voxcoders. I'll keep this one. Just tap out your message with the press-stud, and I will hear it. I can contact you the same way." |
| Technovelgy from Storm Thief,
by Chris Wooding. Published by Scholastic in 2006 Additional resources -
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Compare to the distrans from the 1964 novel Dune by Frank Herbert.
Thanks to Connor Lawrence for contributing this item.
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