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"It's also important to vary your stimuli. I always look for new things to shock the system. Just as you make muscles grow by shocking them, you make the mind grow by shocking it."
- Bart Kosko
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| Filmag | ||
| A video magazine. |
Portmanteau of "film" and "magazine".
| "You've been scanning too many thriller filmags, Toom." My wrist chronometer—
Its many-dialed face glowed brighter in the brilliance of the floodlights than I'd ever seen it in the black dark. "Fins, Rade." I managed what I hoped was a convincing chuckle, in spite of the chill little prickles that coursed my spine. "Lay off my filmags." |
| Technovelgy from Sunward Flight,
by Leo Zagat. Published by Super Science Stories in 1943 Additional resources -
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Compare to filmbook from Dune (1965) by Frank Herbert.
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