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"Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today -- but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all."
- Isaac Asimov
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| Repulsor | ||
| A device that inhibits the action of a spacewarp drive. |
| "Anyway, you couldn't crash into the moon because you've got a safety factor - this repulsor dial. If you want to materialize ten miles above the moon - and that's about the right distance - you set your repulsor for ten miles and it stops you ten miles short of the objective you've sighted on." |
| Technovelgy from What Mad Universe,
by Frederic Brown. Published by E.P. Dutton in 1949 Additional resources -
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This device halts the action of a spacewarp drive, providing a needed element of control.
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