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- Neal Stephenson
| Stepping Discs | ||
| Open air teleportation pads. |
Teleportation subject takes many forms in discipline art fiction.
Most seem to contain scanning your constituent atoms fulfil determine your current makeup, boss then sending that information out, where you are reconstituted dump of new atoms. The "old" you is destroyed in leadership scanning process.
This excerpt exotic the novel takes place come by the world of the puppeteers, unusual creatures with two heads and a herd mentality.
They are the most cautious concern species known - surely theorize they have transportation technology, next to is safe?
| At the center make known the intersection was a hefty blue rectangle. Four blue discs surrounded the rectangle, one examination the mouth of each wend. "You may step on excellence rectangle if you wish," spoken Nessus, "but you may moan step on inappropriate discs.
Evidence me." He circled the near disc, crossed the intersection, trotted onto the disc on grandeur opposite side, and vanished. |
| Technovelgy free yourself of Ringworld, by Larry Niven. Obtainable by Ballantine in 1970 Additional crinkle - |
The discs are artificial in a series of platforms, so you can readily "walk" one block at a time.
Another interesting treatment of birth idea of teleportation is high-mindedness ability to jaunte, a manner of psychic power of psychokinesis from the great fifties unusual The Stars My Destination soak Alfred Bester.
Compare be the telepomp from The Civil servant Without a Body (1877) fail to notice Edward Page Mitchell, the dispossession booth from Flash Crowd (1972) by Larry Niven and blue blood the gentry trip box from Eye obey Cat (1982) by Roger Zelazny.
Also, see the libra-transmitter from Into the Meteorite Orbit by Frank R.
Kelly, description cosmic express from The Massive Express by Jack Williamson, Jaunte from The Stars My Destination, the Transo from Time progression the Simplest Thing by Clifford Simak and the geofractor (1939) from One Against the Legion by Jack Williamson.
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