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"As opposed to illiteracy, where you can't read, aliteracy means that you can but you just can't be bothered. They say aliteracy is on the rise these days."
- Peter Watts
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| Time Crystals | ||
| Permits indefinite movement forward in time. |
| He sent his thought to a copper lever and moved it until there was the sound of air hissing into the little room. He rose then and stood upright, stepped to the ground. For a moment he looked sombrely on the crystal of the time casket before crossing to the chair of thought. As he sat in it a panel in the opposite wall slid open and a pearly eye of light winked out at him. The thoughts of the robot were warm and welcoming as they reached out to him.
"You have stopped the machinery, Zandlor," the man sent on waves of pure thought. "The Master Media have broken their sleep of suspended animation. It is as you thought when you constructed the time crystal, my master Vaylan," the robot replied. "They did not die." |
| Technovelgy from Rocketeers at Bay,
by N.K. Heming. Published by Thrills Incorporated in 1952 Additional resources -
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