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| Ebony Teeth | ||
| Completely black artificial teeth. |
| Miss Perth smiled at him engagingly, showing spotless synthetic ebony teeth, a chilling affectation which had migrated with her from Amarillo, Texas, a year ago. |
| Technovelgy from Now Wait For Last Year,
by Philip K. Dick. Published by Doubleday in 1966 Additional resources -
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Readers may also want to take a look at toothbud transplant from Neuromancer by Wiliam Gibson, implanted steel teeth from The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Phil Dick and sculpted teeth from Mona Lisa Overdrive also by Gibson.
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