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"the [science fiction] writer should be able to convince the reader (and himself) that the wonders he is describing really can come true...and that gets tricky when you take a good, hard look at the world around you."
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In his search for a suitable Earth-like planet, Ran Argal used specialized instruments to find a habitable planet.
A telespectroscope is a combination of a telescope and a spectroscope, used for spectroscopic analysis of radiation from stars and other celestial bodies, created by Joseph Fraunhofer in the nineteenth century.
Compare to the Reflectocosmic Spectrometer from Buck Rogers: 2430 AD (1929) by Nowlan and Calkin, the Electro-Telescope from Blood of the Moon (1936) by Ray Cummings and Spectro-Flash Analysis from Salvage in Space (1933) by Jack Williamson Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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