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Glossary
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| Device Name | Book/Story | Author | Date |
| O-220 | Tarzan at the Eath's Core | Burroughs | 1929 |
| Oat-Tropic Circuit | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | Dick | 1968 |
| Object-Finder Beam | The Conquest of Gola | Stone | 1931 |
| Oceanic Thermal Energy Converter - energy from the sea | Saturn's Race | Niven (w/S. Barnes) | 2000 |
| Odalarm - aromatherapy wake-up call | The Dosadi Experiment | Herbert | 1977 |
| Odorophonics - scent player | The Illustrated Man | Bradbury | 1951 |
| Office Hand | The Human Blend | Foster | 2010 |
| Oil Lens - infinitely adjustable lens | Dune | Herbert | 1965 |
| Olfactory Wakeup Call - wakey wakey eggs and bakey | Altered Carbon | Morgan | 2003 |
| Onionskin Transparent Jeans | Super Sad True Love Story | Shteyngart | 2011 |
| Online Employability Profile Testing - get the right job first | The Age of The Pussyfoot | Pohl | 1965 |
| Online Job Search - via cellphone | The Age of The Pussyfoot | Pohl | 1965 |
| Operation Cleanup - remove orbital debris the brute force way | The Fountains of Paradise | Clarke | 1978 |
| Optic Prosthesis | Changeling | Zelazny | 1980 |
| Optic Television | Twenty Evocations | Sterling | 1984 |
| Optical-Effect Suit | A Plague of Demons | Laumer | 1965 |
| Opton - electronic book | Return from the Stars | Lem | 1961 |
| Orbital Mirror - sunlight when you want it | Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith | Stover | 2005 |
| Orbital Retirement Hotel | Contact | Sagan | 1985 |
| Orbital Terminus - airport in orbit | Count Zero | Gibson | 1986 |
| Orbital Weapon Lancet (OWL) - watch the skies | Quantico | Bear | 2007 |
| Orbiting Penal Colony - Alcatraz in orbit | Tekwar | Shatner | 1989 |
| Organic Superlubricant | Alpha Centauri | Meier | 1999 |
| Organlegging - first mention of organ smuggling | The Jigsaw Man | Niven | 1967 |
| Ornithopter - flies like a bird | Dune | Herbert | 1965 |
| Orphids | Postsingular | Rucker | 2007 |
| Osmosis Generator (Cziltang Brone) - the air lock | Ringworld | Niven | 1970 |
| Overdrive - it's FTL | First Contact | Leinster | 1945 |
| Overlay Specs | Halting State | Stross | 2007 |
| Oxygen Freshener - breath of fresh air | Lost Rocket | Wellman | 1941 |
| Oxygen Hip Flask - just a quick nip | Earth | Brin | 1990 |
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