SPINDIZZY

SPINDIZZY
   One of the best-loved items of sf TERMINOLOGY. The spindizzy is the ANTIGRAVITY device used to drive flying cities through the Galaxy in James BLISH's series collected as CITIES IN FLIGHT (omni 1970), though he was using the term as early as 1950. He gave the spindizzy a wonderfully plausible rationale, rooted in theoretical physics, in which GRAVITY fields are seen as generated or cancelled by rotation.
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