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- Larry Niven
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| Deflector | ||
| A means of pushing aside asteroids that get in the path of your space ship. |
First use of this term.
| The blasters are those ravening beams of destruction which take care of recalcitrant meteorites in a spaceship's course when the deflectors can't handle them. |
| From The Ethical Equations,
by Murray Leinster. Published by Astounding Science Fiction in 1945 Additional resources -
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Compare to the deflector shields in George Lucas' Star Wars. Also, compare to the earlier idea of a meteor-spotting radar from George O. Smith's 1943 short story Recoil.
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