| 1939 F. B. Long Dweller in Outer Darkness in Thrilling Wonder Stories Aug. 68/2
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The blast tubes in his hands were trained on me, but I knew I'd be safe enough and that Helen Torrey and Miles would remain unscathed. The refracting belts had built up an invisible force-screen about them.
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| 1948 ‘R. Lafayette’ Great Air Monopoly in Astounding Sci. Fiction Sept. 75/1
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This fussed him so that he shut off the force screens and would have carried Ole Doc straight back into the ship for a take-off had not his revered master been staring so hard, pipe again forgotten.
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| 1950 E. F. Russell Dear Devil in Other Worlds Sci. Stories May 12/1
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Later, he found a dry cave in the hill on which his objective stood. It took him two days of careful, cautious raying to square its walls, ceiling and floor, plus half a day with a powered fan driving out silicate dust. After that, he stowed his supplies at the back, parked the sled near the front, set up a curtaining force-screen across the entrance. The hole in the hill was now home.
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| 1960 P. Anderson High Crusade (1982) viii. 48
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Soon the Wersgorix landed many ships in a circular formation ‥ to form a cap walled by the eerie faint shimmer of a force screen, picketed by mobile bombards, and roofed by hovering warcraft.
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| 1969 R. C. Meredith We All Died at Breakaway Station (1985) 219
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From within the starship human senses could not detect the instantaneous absence of the force screens that had enfolded her, that had deflected and absorbed electromagnetic energy.
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| 1976 J. W. Campbell Last Evolution in Best of John W. Campbell 5
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But, they attacked in such numbers that fully half the fleet was destroyed by their explosions before the induction-beam fleet arrived. These beams were, to our amazement, quite useless, being instantly absorbed by a force-screen, and the remaining ships sailed on undisturbed, our torpedoes being exhausted.
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| 1994 L. M. Bujold Mirror Dance (1995) 428
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Something just dropped the building's force screen.
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