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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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![]() How will people in space suits communicate?
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Compare to the suit-phone from The Sargasso of Space (1931) by Edmond Hamilton and the Aerial Telegraph from Garret P. Serviss' 1898 novel Edison's Conquest of Mars.
The word "audiphone" has been in use since the 1880's to describe devices for the deaf that transmit sound by direct contact.
Compare to the Aerial Telegraph from Garret P. Serviss' 1898 novel Edison's Conquest of Mars, the suit-phone from The Sargasso of Space (1931) by Edmond Hamilton and the suit-radio from The Long Way (1944) by George O. Smith.
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