three-D n.

You must have loaned your three-di projector, too. All you’ve got here is the micrograph projector for your dirty two-dimensional scenes.

A man Ellaby’s own size was sitting there, viewing a 3D.

They had rediscovered the joy of reading books. Real leather-bound books instead of watching the three D set, or using the story films.

‘That is a sexy type of furniture, all right’, agreed Doran. He lowered himself into another chair, cocked his feet on the 3-D and waved a cigarette.

On his back he carried a lumpy metal cylinder; the harness included a plastic panel across his chest, with switches, knobs, and three meters. Like some science fiction hero on the 3D.

The mammoth 3D mounted on one wall had been scrounged out of spare parts several years after the Zephyr expedition was launched.

But the 3D tapes he’d seen: people jammed together like dogs in a kennel; food rationed; wars and riots; shades of bleak, shades of gray.

It was…as though the entire adventure had merely been some three-dee program which was fast nearing its climax.

The decision to marry a woman who has been properly trained for wifery need not be cold-bloodedly commercial. True…the procedure of reviewing threedy tapes of our clients, examining their genetic and personal files, interviewing those women who seem most promising, etc.,is reminiscent of the personnel office rather than the romantic idyll.

‘It’s not just lessons all the time, then? So long as you’re talking Jovian, for example, you could be talking about dinner or the threedies or anything else at all?’ ‘That’s quite right, Mrs. Landry,’ said Jennifer. ‘There is of course no such language as Jovian—but you have the rest of it right.’

The lights come up in the huge three-di display of the Harmony, colored to show the star-systems of all the allied races.

He himself had only been, what? Ten? Hush. Be quiet. Grownups clustered with worried faces around the threedy, flickering images from far away, grave pronouncements by solemn men and women. Don't you know there’s a Crisis? Men and women are dying to save children like you. At strange places with strange names. The Bean. Left Hook. Damocles. Deimos. Phobos. No, he hadn’t known. At ten, there was little to know except that Popito was away and Mamita sometimes cried herself to sleep.