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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.

You Will Eat The Cookies Made From Plastic...
'Our planes are going to start bringing in bales of discarded plastics...' - Rick Shelley, 1989. (8/13/2026)
It's A Giant Robot! You Reporters Have Been Warned!
'... completely forgetting the ship at sight of the awesome figure and great head of the giant Gaut...' (8/11/2026)
Birds Learn To Sing Pictures ala Frank Herbert's Distrans
'We will fight in the time of fighting.' - Frank Herbert, 1965. (8/9/2026)
ElectionSim: China's 'Ender's Game' Battle Sim, Or Lem's 'Kingdom In A Box'?
'So, Ender, we will now begin your education.' - Orson Scott Card, 1985. (8/7/2026)
Tactile Skin Supplier Map
'What strange sensitivity! What an amazing development of science was manifested in every move and act and word of this Robot!' - Ray Cummings, 1931. (8/5/2026)
Flock Stymied By 'Adversarial Fashion'
'Forget the head atop it, the legs below, feet, arms, hands. It compels erasure.' - William Gibson, 2010. (8/3/2026)
Orb Nomad Zero-Emission Electric Aircraft
'That explains how it was so easy for me to remain motionless in midair or to perch on a flagpole in imitation of a giant bird, even in the windy city of Chicago.' RH Romans, 1929. (8/1/2026)
ICE Buys Shock Gloves Like Batman's
What else is the Caped Crusader using? (7/29/2026)
Factories In The Sky Will Surpass Those Of Earth
'The thirty-odd miles of The Factory’s circumference...' - Basil E. Wells, 1941. (7/27/2026)
Sleeper Drones Lie in Wait
'Wandering mines, you took them out on the edge of the desert, set them down and activated them.' - Maureen F. McHugh, 1994. (7/25/2026)
Warfare Goes Underground In Ukraine
'Once in the very first weeks of the war, before everyone had been evacuated from the surface...' - Philip K. Dick, (7/23/2026)
3D Printed Organs From Space
'For a while your colonists will have to come up to the [orbital] Hospital...' (7/21/2026)
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Herakleophorbia
Synthetic growth achieved in food animals.
(From Food of the Gods [1904] by H.G.  Wells)
Genetic Adjustment
Fixing one lifeform so it can survive on a non-native world.
(From Enchanted Village [1950] by A.E.  van Vogt)
Artificial Space-Warp Drive
Providing the motive power for a ship by creating gravity to fall into.
(From The Immortality of Alan Whidden [1942] by Ralph Milne  Farley)
Electric Resistor Suit
A special suit that allows the wearer to walk through the temporary projectile-based electric fence.
(From Spacewrecked on Venus [1932] by Neil R.  Jones)
Projectile-Based Electric Fence
A temporary fence created by projectiles dropped from a ship, then linked together electrically.
(From Spacewrecked on Venus [1932] by Neil R.  Jones)
Intelligent Living Village
Seemingly a living space, it is able to discern the needs of a traveler.
(From Enchanted Village [1950] by A.E.  van Vogt)
Fascinators
Green, reptilian aliens with multiple eyes that run the Earth in human form.
(From Eight O'Clock in the Morning [1963] by Ray  Nelson)
Molecular Replicator (Food Factory)
Food created from almost anything.
(From Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men [1989] by Rick  Shelley)
Time-Space Traveler
A ship that moves into the present moment.
(From Farewell to the Master [1940] by Harry  Bates)
Instructions From Space
Instructions come from far off in space, to construct a machine, which will take over the world!
(From The Cosmic Hiss [1938] by Edmond  Hamilton)
Thing-That-Spits-Lightning
A kind of ray device that uses a technology too advanced to describe.
(From Lords of the Morning [1952] by Edmond  Hamilton)
Simulation Room
A computerized simulation of a battle space.
(From Ender's Game [1985] by Orson Scott  Card)
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