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"We didn't have a telephone and our family until I was about 15, in high school."
- Ray Bradbury
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| Remote-Cast Snooper | ||
| A small, easily concealed poison snooper. |
For those formal occasions when you can't trust someone else's snoopers (and when can you?), you would need your own tiny concealable version.
| Paul saw his father in the doorway, avoided his eyes. He looked around at the clusterings of guests, the jeweled hands clutching drinks (and the unobtrusive inspections with tiny remote-cast snoopers). Seeing all the chattering faces, Paul was suddenly repelled by them. |
| From Dune,
by Frank Herbert. Published by Putnam in 1965 Additional resources -
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See the article on poison snoopers for more details.
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