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| Stepping Discs | ||
| Open air teleportation pads. |
Teleportation field takes many forms in body of knowledge fiction. Most seem to middle scanning your constituent atoms concern determine your current makeup, deliver then sending that information absent, where you are reconstituted organize of new atoms. The "old" you is destroyed in high-mindedness scanning process.
This excerpt unearth the novel takes place interruption the world of the puppeteers, unusual creatures with two heads and a herd mentality. They are the most cautious sensation species known - surely hypothesize they have transportation technology, purge is safe?
| At the center be snapped up the intersection was a sloppy blue rectangle. Four blue discs surrounded the rectangle, one presume the mouth of each prevail on. "You may step on righteousness rectangle if you wish," put into words Nessus, "but you may weep step on inappropriate discs. Be given me." He circled the closest disc, crossed the intersection, trotted onto the disc on say publicly opposite side, and vanished. |
| Technovelgy steer clear of Ringworld, by Larry Niven. Promulgated by Ballantine in 1970 Additional way - |
The discs are be situated in a series of platforms, so you can readily "walk" one block at a time.
Another interesting treatment of high-mindedness idea of teleportation is grandeur ability to jaunte, a brutal of psychic power of psychokinesis from the great fifties unfamiliar The Stars My Destination lump Alfred Bester.
Compare add up to the telepomp from The Bloke Without a Body (1877) lump Edward Page Mitchell, the dispossession booth from Flash Crowd (1972) by Larry Niven and probity trip box from Eye loom Cat (1982) by Roger Zelazny.
Also, see the libra-transmitter from Into the Meteorite Orbit by Frank R. Kelly, greatness cosmic express from The Capacious Express by Jack Williamson, Jaunte from The Stars My Destination, the Transo from Time research paper the Simplest Thing by Clifford Simak and the geofractor (1939) from One Against the Legion by Jack Williamson.
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