Fictional Things that Should Exist

Babelfish

The Greek gods

Invisibility serum.

Dragons, like in Dragonheart or the Pern novels.

The autodocs from Larry Niven’s novels. (Cures all diseases, heals all injuries, rejuvenates, and is a common household appliance in the 30th Century.)

Iron Man armor.

Some form of blaster/phaser/ray-gun.

Some form of faster-than-light engine for space travel.

Allison, this girl I met at Niagra Falls. She’s from Canada; you wouldn’t know her.

Agreed, and/or the powered armor from Heinlein’s Starship Troopers and the aforementioned Forever War. 'Way cool.

I think you’re thinking of another book, but you may be right. Although English has changed out of all recognition in the later chapters, the narrator doesn’t dwell on it much - since by then he’s the unit commander, all his underlings speak English of his own era in his presence.

/hijack

Yeah, cheap FTL travel. No matter the benefit to humanity, I want to travel a lot and see heaps of cool stuff.

In later books, it’s revealed that the axlotl tanks are, in fact, plain old (well, mutated and surgically altered) biological uteruses.

And are secretly programmed to treat antisocial thoughts as a neurological disorder. No thanks.

Dammit! I was hoping you wouldn’t, so that I could! :stuck_out_tongue:

Along with two by Luke Short - Jim Courtright and Charlie Storms.

Kong.

I wanna see downtown New York coverd in Giant Monkey Poop. :smiley:

Battle-mechs
Surrogates
Bending Units, dark matter, hooker-bots
non-corrupt politicians

Women who can run, fight, and perform acrobatic maneuvers in six-inch heels.

100% accurate lie detectors or truth serums

I would like to Jaunt, but I would go to sleep first and not fake out the knock-out drugs.

Does he explain how to pronounce it?

And the OK Corral only lasted 8 or so seconds, not an action packed 30 minutes.

Love potions. Wouldn’t life be much more amusing?

No. I presume it would be like “heer,” to distinguish it from the possessive “her,” but dunno.

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It’s called Budweiser, and it’s responsible for about 65% of the population of the American Mid-west. :wink: