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Compare to ultrawave from Triplanetary (1934) by EE 'Doc' Smith.
Other faster-than-light communications technovelgies include Ultrawave relay or hyperwave relay (Isaac Asimov, Foundation, 1951), the Dirac transmitter (James Blish, Cities in Flight, 1957), the Ansible (Ursula LeGuin, Rocannon's World, 1967), Taprisiot call (Frank Herbert, The Dosadi Experiment, 1977) and the Fatline (Dan Simmons, Hyperion, 1989).
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