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"A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content."
- Theodore Sturgeon
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| Mentophone | ||
| A device that facilitates long-distance telepathy. |
A remarkable attempt at visualizing what it might be like to communicate with a telepath technology.
| A buzzer hummed at Adams and he flipped up a tumbler on his desk.
"What is it?" An android voice answered. "It's Mr. Thorne, sir, on the mentophone from Andrelon." "Thank you, Alice," Adams said. He clicked open a drawer and took out the cap, placed it on his head, adjusted it with steady fingers. Thoughts flickered through his brain, disjointed, random thoughts, all faint and faraway. Ghost thoughts drifting through the universe - residual thoughts from the minds of things in time and space that was unguessable... Adams closed his eyes and settled back. "Hello, Thorne," he thought. Thorne's thought came in, thin and scratchy over the space of over fifty light years... A high singsong thought came in and skipped across his brain... "Start over again, Thorne. A ghost came along and blotted you out..." |
| Technovelgy from Time Quarry,
by Clifford Simak. Published by Galaxy in 1950 Additional resources -
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Compare to the taprisiot monitor from Frank Herbert's Dosadi Experiment (1977).
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'He had travelled the space-lanes of the solar system for the greater part of his life...'
'The dinner was excellent. It was completely vegetarian — grown in specially prepared gardens in this Moon base...'
'Telepaths had their sensitiveness enlarged to an immense range by the pin-sets, which were telepathic amplifiers adapted to the mammal mind.'
'It was a relief to enter one of the comfortable autos, whisper a direction down the tube, and just know that you would be taken to your destination in the quickest, safest, and cheapest manner.'
'But he didn't get very far with it before another noise in his ear radio scattered his thoughts. George winced...'
'The vast spinning sphere of Factory in the Sky loomed above and ahead of us, gleaming white against the unfathomable jet depths of surrounding space.'
'And if it doesn’t work,' inquired Lazarus, 'what does that make us? Sunspots?'
'The Dillard people had performed a miracle and put all the works in a girl-modeled case.'
'Our study of your race has convinced us that you are not fitted to leave your planet in the present state of your civilization.'
