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Explore the inventions, technology and ideas of science fiction writers at Technovelgy (that's tech-novel-gee!) - over 2,200 are available. Use the Timeline of Science Fiction Invention or the alphabetic Glossary of Science Fiction Technology to see them all, look for the category that interests you, or browse by favorite author / book. Browse more than 3,700 Science Fiction in the News articles.

Grok And The City Fathers From 'Cities In Flight' By James Blish
'Chris, the City Fathers are not interested in your welfare; I suppose you know that. They're interested in only one thing: the survival of the city.' - James Blish, 1957. (5/11/2026)
Why Not Move A Warehouse District?
'Did you never see a moving house before?' - Jane Webb Loudon, 1828. (5/9/2026)
Will An AI Found A New Religion?
'You must decide how you will worship Me.' - Frank Herbert, 1965. (5/7/2026)
Terraformer Industries Make Methane
'Drake was the young spatial engineer he employed to terraform the little rock...' - Jack Williamson, 1942. (5/5/2026)
I Need An Outdoor Spherical Display
'Usually a spherical display hovered in the centre...' - Iain M. Banks, 2010. (5/3/2026)
Worm Disrupts Physics Simulations Undetected For A Decade
'It diverts integers of the data, the fundamental message-units, so that they no longer agree.' - Philip K. Dick, 1965. (5/1/2026)
Muxcard Redditor's DIY Credit Card-Sized Computer
It's a computer, but just barely. (4/29/2026)
'Soft Assembly' Fashions That Fashion Themselves On The Wearer
'Clothes are no longer made from dead fibers of fixed color and texture that can approximate only crudely to the vagrant human figure...' - JG Ballard, 1970. (4/27/2026)
Orwell's Nightmare Of AI-Written Novels Comes To Pass
'Books were just a commodity that had to be produced, like jam or bootlaces.' - George Orwell, 1948. (4/25/2026)
ISS Plagued By Leak - Again!
'There were perhaps a dozen bladder-like objects in the tunnel...' - Robert Heinlein, 1948. (4/23/2026)
Ridiculous 'Ghost Murmur' Tech Still Science Fiction
'...it rears and spreads its fan. It can pick one man out of a crowd.' - Roger Zelazny, 1967. (4/21/2026)
Outdoor Video Screens Can Be Arbitrarily Large
The Shape of Things To Come, HG Wells, 1936. (4/19/2026)
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Smart Suit
An autonomous exoskeleton.
(From Descendant [1987] by Iain M  Banks)
Earth-Brain
The intelligence center of the living Earth!
(From The Earth-Brain [1932] by Edmond  Hamilton)
Robox

(From Destination: Void [1965] by Frank  Herbert)
AI Declares Godhood
An artificial machine intelligence declares itself to be God, and demands worship from humans.
(From Destination: Void [1965] by Frank  Herbert)
Flying Wire
Barbed wire that seeks to expand to its remembered size and extent.
(From Make Room! Make Room! [1966] by Harry  Harrison)
Spherical Display
An arbitrarily large display that is a perfect sphere.
(From Surface Detail [2010] by Iain M  Banks)
Very Large Black Boxes
Creating a computer system that solves problems without specific programming.
(From Summa Technologiae [1964] by Stanislaw  Lem)
Synthetic Eggshell

(From Jurassic Park [1990] by Michael  Crichton)
Federal Bureau of Termination
The door out of this life is always open - for you.
(From 2 B R 0 2 B [1962] by Kurt  Vonnegut, Jr.)
Flame-Tool
A searing rapier of death! also handy for cutting sheets of metal.
(From The Gate to Xoran [1931] by H.G.  Wells)
Supercalculator
Connecting all the computing machines of the universe!
(From Answer [1954] by Frederic  Brown)
Implanted Transceiver Disc
A transceiver inserted into the brain of the operator.
(From Blood on the Sun [1942] by Hal K.  Wells)
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