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| Momentum Screen Allows a spacemen to avoid the problem of "high gee" forces on take-off. (From Completely Automatic [1941] by Theodore Sturgeon) |
| Vanwinkling Another name for time-traveling into the future. (From The Best-Laid Scheme [1941] by L. Sprague de Camp) |
| Trace Web A small, handheld device that contacts (and even instantiates) the larger network. (From Souvenir [1954] by Philip K. Dick) |
| Web An information network. (From Souvenir [1954] by Philip K. Dick) |
| Relay A central information system used to coordinate all of human culture and technology. (From Souvenir [1954] by Philip K. Dick) |
| Histo-Research Historical research using a time machine. (From The Meddler [1954] by Philip K. Dick) |
| The Dip A device that randomly dredges up things from the past... or the future. (From The Meddler [1954] by Philip K. Dick) |
| Human Quarter A ghetto for human beings; in this case, in a world of robots. (From James P. Crow [1954] by Philip K. Dick) |
| Mother-Scanner A device that can see your future through your next birth. (From The Turning Wheel [1954] by Philip K. Dick) |
| Robot Farmer A humanoid robot used for agriculture. (From The Turning Wheel [1954] by Philip K. Dick) |
| Robot Guard Very early reference to a guard robot. (From The Turning Wheel [1954] by Philip K. Dick) |
| Electrono-Mirror Focuses the sun's rays on a planetary surface for terraforming purposes. (From The Day We Celebrate [1941] by Nelson S. Bond) |
| Metal Solvent Ray Thrower Acts like a flame thrower in space. (From Lost Rocket [1941] by Manly Wade Wellman) |
| Blastick A scorching beam weapon (From The Traitor [1941] by Karl von Rachen) |
| Spacesuit Testing A device and method for testing spacesuits. (From The Shot Into Infinity [1929] by Otto Willi Gail) |
| False Animal Repairman A specialized roboticist who repaired robotic animals. (From Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? [1968] by Philip K. Dick) |
| Space Placers Miners who use placer mining techniques adapted from Earth geology. (From The Day We Celebrate [1941] by Nelson S. Bond) |
| Charted Planetoid Mines Charting the planetoids and minor bodies for mining purposes. (From The Day We Celebrate [1941] by Nelson S. Bond) |
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