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Interstellar teleporter
An interstellar teleporter is a hypothetical technology appearing in science fiction, typically in hard sci-fi, which moves people and/or other objects over interstellar distances instanteously.
Examples
- the Door in Lloyd Biggle Jr. 's short story The Rule of the Door .
- Ramsbotham Jump in Robert A. Heinlein's novel Tunnel in the Sky.
- Runcible on Neal Asher's novel Gridlinked
- Springer technology in John Barnes' series of novels:
- A Million Open Doors
- Earth Made of Glass
- Merchant of Souls
- Wargate in Bruce Balfour 's The Forge of Mars .
- The Stargate featured in the movie Stargate and the followup series Stargate SG-1.
- An intergalactic teleprter made a brief apperance in the John Carpenter horror movie They Live.
See also
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