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Glossary
of Science Fiction Ideas and Inventions
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1865 Inventions Available)
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
| Device Name | Book/Story | Author | Date |
| Eadhamite | When the Sleeper Wakes | Wells | 1899 |
| Eager Beaver - your friendly robot helper | The Door Into Summer | Heinlein | 1956 |
| Earmite | Freezone | Shirley | 1985 |
| Eavesdropper - check if it's safe | Cities in Flight | Blish | 1957 |
| Eavesdropping Ray - hears through walls | Brigands of the Moon | Cummings | 1931 |
| Ebony Teeth | Now Wait For Last Year | Dick | 1966 |
| Ecstasy Plug | Death by Ecstasy | Niven | 1969 |
| Edgar | Electric Dreams | Lemorande | 1984 |
| E-Document Distribution - step up to the kiosk | Earth | Brin | 1990 |
| Eetee (E.T - extraterrestrial) | Double Star | Heinlein | 1956 |
| Effective Human Implant Technology (EHIT) | Snake-Eyes | Maddox | 1986 |
| Ego-Likeness - a true portrait | Dune | Herbert | 1965 |
| Electric Diaper | The Psychophonic Nurse | Keller | 1928 |
| Electric Machine Gun (Railgun) - electromagnetic acceleration | The Battery of Hate | Campbell | 1933 |
| Electric Monk - belief on demand | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | Adams | 1987 |
| Electric Phaetons (Electric Cars) | A Journey In Other Worlds | Astor IV | 1894 |
| Electric Protection-Wires (Electrified Fence) | A Journey In Other Worlds | Astor IV | 1894 |
| Electric Rifle - Tom Swift's weapon of choice | Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle | Appleton | 1911 |
| Electric Sheep - livestock as consumer electronics | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | Dick | 1968 |
| Electric Skillet - computer tapeworm project | The Shockwave Rider | Brunner | 1975 |
| Electrical Grandmother - more than a machine | I Sing The Body Electric! | Bradbury | 1969 |
| Electric-Eyed Snake | Fahrenheit 451 | Bradbury | 1953 |
| Electric-Space-Strain Projector - wireless power transmission | The Mightiest Machine | Campbell | 1934 |
| Electrified Fence | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | Twain | 1889 |
| Electrify the Rail - repel boarders! | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Verne | 1875 |
| Electromagnetic Cannon | Ringworld | Niven | 1970 |
| Electronic Bard | The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age | Lem | 1965 |
| Electronic Body Analyzer | The Andromeda Strain | Crichton | 1969 |
| Electronic Book - more massively useful than a towel | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Adams | 1979 |
| Electronic Book Store | Return from the Stars | Lem | 1961 |
| Electronic Paper | 2001: A Space Odyssey | Clarke | 1968 |
| Electronic Voting | The Shockwave Rider | Brunner | 1975 |
| Electrosecretary - automatic transcription machine | A Fall of Moondust | Clarke | 1961 |
| Eloi - long lifers | Queen of Angels | Bear | 1990 |
| Emblok - MP3 player for memories | Earth Made of Glass | Barnes | 1998 |
| Embryo Visualization | Daughter of Elysium | Slonczewski | 1994 |
| Embryonic Robots - early sci-fi nanobots? | Counter Clock World | Dick | 1967 |
| Emergency Corrective Rockets | The Emperor of the Stars | Schachner (w. AL Zagat) | 1931 |
| Emergency Lifeboat - very early space rescue vehicle | Triplanetary | Smith | 1934 |
| Emergency Treatment Tank (Chamber) | Agent of Vega | Schmitz | 1949 |
| EmilyPost - checks for flames | Earth | Brin | 1990 |
| Emissarial Projection - almost an a.i. | The Algebraist | Banks | 2004 |
| Empathy Box - TV for your emotional brain | The Little Black Box | Dick | 1964 |
| Empty Man - a body ready for a mind | A World Out of Time | Niven | 1976 |
| Energy Weapon | Seesaw | van Vogt | 1941 |
| Energy-Cannon | The Last Castle | Vance | 1967 |
| Environmental Happening | The Phantom of Kansas | Varley | 1976 |
| E-Paper - disposable LCD displays | Darwin's Children | Bear | 2003 |
| E-paper Hologram | Darwin's Children | Bear | 2003 |
| E-paper Newspaper | Minority Report (Movie) | Spielberg | 2002 |
| Erased Memory - forget about it | We Can Remember It For You Wholesale | Dick | 1966 |
| Ersatz Window - fake view of outside | Galactic Pot-Healer | Dick | 1969 |
| Escalladder - a ladder you can ride | Crashlander | Niven | 1994 |
| Escape Pod - check the pod, Darth | Star Wars | Lucas | 1976 |
| Esper Photo Analysis - zoom way in | Blade Runner | Scott | 1982 |
| Espionage Machine - reading minds scientifically | No, No, Not Rogov! | Smith | 1958 |
| E-Suit (Environmental Suit) | Chindi | McDevitt | 2002 |
| Eternity Drug | Far Centaurus | van Vogt | 1944 |
| Etherometer - check the ether for gravity waves | Spawn of the Red Giants | Long, Jr. | 1937 |
| Ether-Wall - an invisibility field. | Triplanetary | Smith | 1934 |
| Ethical Suicide Parlor - don't be a drupelet | Welcome to the Monkey House | Vonnegut | 1958 |
| EverRest Cryotorium - cryonics in orbit | Flare | Zelazny | 1992 |
| Exoskeleton - a military exoskeleton | A Good Old-Fashioned Future | Sterling | 1999 |
| External Eyelenses - make a spectacle of yourself | Altered Carbon | Morgan | 2003 |
| Extra-Factual Memory - an implanted memory | We Can Remember It For You Wholesale | Dick | 1966 |
| Eyecaps | Starfish | Watts | 1999 |
| Eyephone(s) - big screen in a small package | Idoru | Gibson | 1996 |
| EyePod - you'll need one for your implant | WWW: Wake | Sawyer | 2009 |
| Eyes - semi-autonomous surveillance drones | This Moment of the Storm | Zelazny | 1966 |
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