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| Astroposit Retro-style system provides a readout on your position anywhere in the galaxy. (From The Hunch [1961] by Christopher Anvil) |
| Flitterboat A one-man cargo space craft. (From A Spaceship Named McGuire [1961] by Gordon Randall Garrett) |
| Magnetic Soles Magnetized footwear for easy walking on low gravity metal surfaces. (From A Spaceship Named McGuire [1961] by Gordon Randall Garrett) |
| Plexiskin A means of disguise. (From A Spaceship Named McGuire [1961] by Gordon Randall Garrett) |
| Bolognium Very early fictional element, courtesy of metallurgists. (From Transactions of Amer Soc for Steel Treating [1926] by Edgar Bain) |
| Clockwork Man A man from the future with an embedded mechanism to manipulate time. (From The Clockwork Man [1923] by E.V. Odle) |
| Chemical Production of Food Creation of food in the laboratory rather than in the field. (From Mizora: A Prophecy [1881] by Mary E. Bradley Lane) |
| Threat Team (of sf writers) Gathering together a group of science fiction writers to try to predict what will happen, or to understand an unknown threat. (From Footfall [1985] by Larry Niven (w/J. Pournelle)) |
| VEIL A wearable device used to foil facial recognition systems. (From Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel [2019] by Neal Stephenson) |
| OLED Body Film Attaching or implanting flexible screen material to the body as decoration. (From Waste Tide [2019] by Chen Qiufan) |
| Space Tug A small vessel used to maneuver other ships. (From Murder on the Asteroid [1933] by Eando Binder) |
| Vastening It's hard to describe, but it's a robotic sense perception. (From The Proud Robot [1943] by Lewis Padgett) |
| Pneumo-Slacks Pants that make you look beefier. (From The Proud Robot [1943] by Lewis Padgett) |
| Thermalarm Relays Detects objects by their heat radiation, so space craft can maneuver around them. (From Collision Orbit [1942] by Jack Williamson) |
| Seetee Blinker A marker of contraterrene matter (antimatter) asteroids, to aid in interplanetary navigation. (From Collision Orbit [1942] by Jack Williamson) |
| Negative Safety-Field A paragravity-based shield for space craft. (From Collision Orbit [1942] by Jack Williamson) |
| Plastifoam Used to seal large leaks in space craft. (From Collision Orbit [1942] by Jack Williamson) |
| Space-Burned Analogous to sun-burned. (From Collision Orbit [1942] by Jack Williamson) |
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