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  2. Waldeyer's tonsillar ring - Wikipedia

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    Waldeyer's tonsillar ring (pharyngeal lymphoid ring, Waldeyer's lymphatic ring, or tonsillar ring) is a ringed arrangement of lymphoid organs in the pharynx. Waldeyer's ring surrounds the naso- and oropharynx , with some of its tonsillar tissue located above and some below the soft palate (and to the back of the mouth cavity ).

  3. Teleportation in fiction - Wikipedia

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    "Travel by Wire!" is a science fiction short story by English writer Arthur C. Clarke. His first published story, it was first published in December 1937 .This story is a humorous record on the development of the "radio-transporter" (actually a teleportation machine), and the various technical difficulties and commercial ventures that resulted.

  4. Clarke's three laws - Wikipedia

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    British science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke formulated three adages that are known as Clarke's three laws, of which the third law is the best known and most widely cited. They are part of his ideas in his extensive writings about the future.

  5. Ring (Baxter novel) - Wikipedia

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    Ring is a 1994 science fiction novel by British author Stephen Baxter. [1] The novel tells the story of the end of the universe and the saving of mankind from its destruction. Two parallel plots are followed throughout the novel: that of Lieserl, an AI exploring the interior of the Sun , and that of the Great Northern , a generation ship on a ...

  6. Ansible - Wikipedia

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    Ursula K. Le Guin coined the word "ansible" in her 1966 novel Rocannon's World. [1] [4] The word was a contraction of "answerable", as the device would allow its users to receive answers to their messages in a reasonable amount of time, even over interstellar distances.

  7. King Solomon's Ring (short story) - Wikipedia

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    "King Solomon's Ring" was originally published in the October 1963 issue of Fantastic "King Solomon's Ring" is a science fiction novelette by American writer Roger Zelazny which appeared in the magazine Fantastic: Stories of Imagination in 1963. The novelette was republished five years later in Great Science Fiction, a reprint companion to ...

  8. Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed - Wikipedia

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    "Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed" is a science fiction short story by American writer Ray Bradbury. It was originally published in the magazine Thrilling Wonder Stories in August 1949, under the title "The Naming of Names". It was subsequently included in the short-story collections A Medicine for Melancholy and S Is for Space.

  9. Ring Around the Sun (short story) - Wikipedia

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    "Ring Around the Sun" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the March 1940 issue of Future Fiction and reprinted in the 1972 collection The Early Asimov. "Ring Around the Sun" was the fifth story Asimov wrote, and also the fifth to be published.