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Science Fiction Inventions, Technology and Ideas

Unfortunately, this excellent work by Vance is not currently in print. The novel is about a group of expatriates who have created a set of castles on an otherwise uninhabited world; they pursue an effete aristocratic lifestyle. Their servants inexplicably revolt; what will gentlemen do? This novel shows Vance's verbal style like no other. Select an invention:

Energy-Cannon

Power-Wagon - legless beast of burden

Syrup Sac - kind of like those gravity flow beer hats

 

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Drone Swarm Lifts Truck - Not!
re: Francis Godwin
(3/27/2020)

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re: Larry Niven
(3/25/2020)

Prototype Robotic Masseur Has The Touch
re: AE van Vogt
(3/23/2020)

Trash Sorting AI Robot Presages Skynet, Thanks A Lot
re: Various
(3/21/2020)

Electric Unicycle Is A Tumblebug
re: Robert Heinlein
(3/19/2020)

Another Soil Bacterium Eats Plastic
re: Michael Crichton
(3/17/2020)

reLive Memorial Come Back As A Tree
re: Philip K. Dick
(3/15/2020)

Engineered Living Building Materials
re: Larry Niven
(3/13/2020)

Draw Circuits With Conductive Ink
re: Niven and Pournelle
(3/11/2020)

Arkangel: Automatic Visual Censoring
re: George Orwell
(3/9/2020)

NASA Competition To Design A Bucket Drum For Moon Mining
re: Ray Cummings
(3/7/2020)

Medical Assistant Robot May Roam The Halls Of Hospitals
re: Isaac Asimov
(3/5/2020)

No Autonomous Trucks? Wait, What?
re: Philip K. Dick
(3/3/2020)

As Big As A Biltong - World's Largest 3D Printer
re: Philip K. Dick
(3/1/2020)

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