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- Samuel R. Delany
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| Multi-View Surveillance Display | ||
| Lots of different video sources combined into one display. |
| I sent my eyes on their rounds and tended my gallery of one hundred-thirty changing pictures, on the big wall of the Trouble Center, there atop the Watch Tower of Town Hall... |
| Technovelgy from This Moment of the Storm,
by Roger Zelazny. Published by Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1966 Additional resources -
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Compare to the Mirror Grid Multiple-View Surveillance Panel from Wandl, the Invader (1939) by Ray Cummings and the Visaphone zoom call from John Jones's Dollar (1915) by Harry Stephen Keeler.
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