spindizzy

This is an early Victorian "spindizzy" which lifted the city of Mantua into space for a short time.

Making Light: Open thread 136 2010

His "spindizzy" motors used a little-known law of physics (still undiscovered) to create their own gravity and their own motive force.

A Hole In Space Niven, Larry, 1938- 1992

Then, abruptly, the hypothesis and the mathematicians had their first innings; From the many pages of symbols and the mumbled discussions of the possible field-strength of a single electronic pole in rotation, the DillonWagonner gr'vitron polarity generator-almost immediately dubbed the "spindizzy" in honor of what it did - to electron rotation-sprang as if full-born.

Cities In Flight Blish, James 1957

A couple of pilots had gone nuts in the "spindizzy," and remembering his own feelings as he watched the sky go by, it was easy to understand.

Slingshot Irving W. Lande

A device called a "spindizzy" produced a force-field dome over earth cities (and also allowed them to defy gravity and take off into space!) (Cities in FLight cover)

Science Fiction in the News 2009

Strictly as a matter of record: spindizzy spells off and on since Tuesday at last; also allergic reaction last night.

Monday! alphafenris 2009

A little tipsified, fine, but the whole spindizzy in the bathroom toilet passout God WHOOPS * yurf* has lost whatever faint charm it originally possessed.

Skin The Sun, Fall Asleep, Wish Away, The Soul Is cheap suzieboz 2005

As such, in my own personal book, the spindizzy and those floating cities are great.

REVIEW: Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick 2005

I sat thinking of a seraph crucified of an aspiration's whisper of deathless men in spindizzy flight

Archive 2005-09-01 2005

I sat thinking of a seraph crucified of an aspiration's whisper of deathless men in spindizzy flight

Daydreaming 2005