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"...the elements of cyberpunk have dissolved into the whole SF genre, so it’s hard to find anyone writing who doesn’t owe serious debts to Gibson and his crew."
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Astrogator's Masking Goggles  
  Allows better viewing of astrogation charts and displays.  

"I’m taking the ship into space...."
The young astrogator stared at him and at the gun through masking goggles; then he sank into his seat with a slow shudder.

"...We are now somewhere near the orbit of the Moon. Isn’t that right, Arliess?”
The other did not seem to hear; he sat staring blindly before him through his goggles at the slowly-changing chart, where cryptic lights burned, some moving like glowing paramecia along fine-traced luminous tracks.

ARLIESS turned his head at last, slowly, as if the movement were painful. His dispassionate goggles regarded the telltale needles that had come quiveringly alive on the radiodetector box between them, bluntly giving the lie to the automatic chart.

Arliess jerked ineffectually in his clamps, cried out thickly. His eyes came stickily open behind their square goggles.

Technovelgy from Saboteur of Space, by Robert Abernathy.
Published by Planet Stories in 1944
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