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"As opposed to illiteracy, where you can't read, aliteracy means that you can but you just can't be bothered. They say aliteracy is on the rise these days."
- Peter Watts
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| Battery-Powered 3D Comic Book | ||
| A comic book the pages of which were animated by battery power. |
Telling how this particular item is used in the book would give away too much of the plot.
| Before him lay the October 2003 copy of the uncivilized comic book, The Blue Cephalopod Man From Titan. At the moment, his lips moving, he examined the entertaining adventure, The Blue Cephalopod Man Meets the Fiendish Dirt-Thing That Bored to the Surface of Io After Two Billion Years Asleep in the Depths! He had reached the frame where the Blue Cephalopod Man, roused to consciousness by his sidekick's frantic telepathic efforts, had managed to convert the radiation-detecting portable G-system into a Cathode-Magnetic Ionizing Bi-polar Emanator.
 (Blue Cephalopod Man comic detail from "The Zap Gun" by Philip K. Dick) With this Emanator, the Blue Cephalopod Man threatened the Fiendish Dirt-Thing as it attempted to carry off Miss Whitecotton, the mammate girlfriend of the Blue Man. It had succeeded in unfastening Miss Whitecotton's blouse so that one breast - and only one; that was International Law, the ruling applying severely to children's reading material - was exposed to the flickering light of Io's sky. It pulsed warmly, wiggled as Pete squeezed the wiggling-trigger. And the nipple dialated like a tiny pink lightbulb, upraised in 3-D and winking on and off, on and off ... and would continue to do so until the five-year battery-plate contained within the back cover of the mag at last gave out. Tinnily, in sequence, as Pete stroked the aud tab, the adversaries of the adventure spoke. |
| Technovelgy from The Zap Gun (Project Plowshare),
by Philip K. Dick. Published by Galaxy Publishing in 1965 Additional resources -
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Does anyone know when the first self-powered talking books came out? The first ones I remember couldn't have been earlier than the 1990's. I'm not referring to books on tape; I mean children's books with complete paper pages, that also had sound enhancements. And a battery plate hidden somewhere.
(Blue Cephalopod Man comic from "The Zap Gun" by Philip K. Dick)
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