Citations:spindizzy
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English citations of spindizzy
(science fiction)[edit]
- 2001 [1962], J[esse] F[ranklin] Bone, chapter XIII, in The Lani People, Project Gutenberg (eBook #2509), unnumbered page:
- And the ovoid shape was reminiscent of the even more ancient spindizzy design. A hyperspace converter like that couldn’t be less than four millennia old. […] The old spindizzies were soundly engineered converters of almost childlike simplicity that could and did carry ships enormous distances if their passengers didn’t care about subjective time-lag, and a little radioactivity.
- 2008 [2007], Ken MacLeod, The Execution Channel, London: Orbit Books, →ISBN, page 130:
- There are of course those who claim that the test we know of was rigged to fail, and that the real test was a success. There are rumours about secret work on the Heim drive, HTS, the “spindizzy” as some call it – from a science fiction story – all over the net.’
- 2013 [2012], David Brin, Existence, New York, NY: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 774:
- Is a great big bomb already headed our way, to punish us for broadcasting Mister Ed? In that case, maybe you could spare us some battle cruiser blueprints and disintegrator-ray plans? Some spindizzies and Alderson Field generators would come in handy.
- 2015, Craig L. Davidson, Horatio Smith and the Beam of Vengeance, Port Macquarie: CLD Productions Ltd, Lulu Publishing, →ISBN, pages 137, 143:
- Like their created counterparts, they had developed their own “Cities in the Sky”. A network of flying settlements, all defying gravity through the use of massive engines: Spin-dizzies. […] Levitating above the surface, their spin-dizzies, akin to those used in the hoverers, produced a cushion of air, traversing any form of terrain.
- 2016, David Wegert, Kiloyear Future History: Possible Channelled Timelines for 1000 Years in the Future, Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page unknown:
- The development of gravity polarisers or spindizzies on some time lines with the help of certain advanced civilisations meant larger craft were capable of higher speeds.
- 2017 July 16, hypatiab7, “Re: Why evolutionists no talk about gigantism?”, in alt.atheism[2] (Usenet):
- How gigantic was this ark of yours, if it was filled with dinosaurs from various ages and their food, as well as all the mammals, reptiles, amphibians, […] plus all those unmentioned plants and veggies and 8 human suckers to do all the work. The poor saps needed several spindizzies to carry all that.
engine-powered miniature racing car[edit]
- 2010 September 24, Robert C. Yeager, “Fast and Finely Crafted, Spindizzies Still Dazzle”, in The New York Times[3]:
- For a few short years before and after World War II, the ear-splitting shriek of handbuilt model racecars, known as spindizzies or tether cars, could be heard across America. / Sitting at his kitchen table, only eight miles from a raceway where the cars once zipped past at more than 100 miles per hour, LeRoy Sabbatini reverently recalls his first spindizzy.
- 2010 September 24, Robert C. Yeager, “For Tether Car Collectors, Originality Counts Most”, in The New York Times[4]:
- Spindizzies, or tether cars, come in three categories of descending value: original as raced, restored and reproduced. […] The best indicator of a spindizzy’s authenticity is its size, said Eric Zausner of Berkeley, Calif., who has an extensive collection. “Repros are always smaller because they come from second-generation molds.”
?[edit]
- 1999, Tom Hoberg, “Multiplex Heroine: Screen Adaptations of Emma”, in Barbara Tepa Lupack, editor, Nineteenth-Century Women at the Movies: Adapting Classic Women's Fiction to Film, Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green University Popular Press, →ISBN, page 121:
- Tidy, placid Highbury has yielded place to the raucous sprawl of mall, disco, and freeway, and its sleepy denizens to the decibel-challenging spindizzies of contemporary teenage-hood, where endless cellphone conversations supplant social visiting.