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"Poised between intransigent scepticism and uncritical credulity, it [science fiction] is par excellence the literature of the open mind."
- John Brunner
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| Poison-Bearing Invisible Glove | ||
| Membranous apparel for the hands, used to dispense poisons. |
How can you protect yourself from others while dispensing toxins during the act of shaking hands?
| Theodoric... extended his hand.
"Dosker said, "If you shake hands with him, Rachmael, he'll deposit a virus contamination that'll produce liver toxicity within your system inside an hour." Glowering, Theodoric... then removed the membrane-like, up-to-now invisible glove of plastic which covered his hand. So Dosker had been right, Rachmael realized, as he watched Theodoric carefully deposit the glove in the ship's incinerating waste-disposal chute. |
| Technovelgy from Lies, Inc.,
by Philip K. Dick. Published by Fantastic in 1964 Additional resources -
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Unrelated but interesting sfnal gloves include the impact-sensitive karatand from John Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar (1968), the spray-on surgical gloves from Richard Morgan's Altered Carbon (2003) and the self-cleaning fabricule gloves from Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age (1995).
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