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"The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer. Day after month after year after story after book."
- Harlan Ellison
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| Invisible Cloak | ||
| A cloak that renders the wearer invisible. |
Long before Harry Potter, Ray Cummings had an electronic cloak that rendered its user invisible. It's very handy for sneaking down those narrow spaceship corridors.
| The invisible cloak. We laid it on my grid, and I adjusted its mechanism. I donned it and drew its hood, and threw on its current.
"All right, Anita?" "Yes" "Can you see me?" "No." She had stepped back a foot or two. "Not from here. But you must let no one approach too close." Then she came forward, put out her hand, fumbled until she found me. |
| From Brigands of the Moon,
by Ray Cummings. Published by Astounding Stories of Super Science in 1930 Additional resources -
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Later, he writes:
Anita turned to seal my door; within my faintly humming cloak I stood besider her. Was I invisible in this light?
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