stasis field n.

Monroe-Alpha began to understand what they were talking about. It was the so-called Adirondack stasis field. It had been a three-day wonder when it was discovered, a generation earlier, in a remote part of the mountains from which it got its name.

Goodman knew that Mrs. Melith had come out of a derrsin stasis field; he had recognized the characteristic blue haze. The derrsin was used on Terra, too. Sometimes there were good medical reasons for suspending all activity, all growth, all decay. Suppose a patient had a desperate need for a certain serum, procurable only on Mars. Simply project the person into stasis until the serum could arrive.

The ship had power, probably, to reach several worlds, but not to slow him down to the speed of any known world. Well, that was all right. In his stasis field Kzanol wouldn’t care how hard he hit.

I couldn’t begin to understand the principles behind the stasis field; the gap between present-day physics and my master’s degree in the same subject was as long as the time that separated Galileo and Einstein.

The ship is a flat deck inside an almost perfectly reflecting shell. The Gravity Engines, Stasis Field Generators and the Refrigerator Laser are all in the smaller sphere that sits in the middle of the deck.

Should the electromagnetic field be in danger of imminent termination, or if someone starts disassembling the device, it and everything within two meters of it will be engulfed by a stasis field. No time will pass for anything within the stasis field. In effect, that volume of space has been cut off from the rest of the universe.

The seedships had vast cell libraries, cloning material from literally thousands of worlds preserved in a stasis field.

‘Your right forearm’—he looked down, and saw it was held in place by a stasis field—‘was broken.’

Once activated, the booth created a static field of Time; in the same way X-rays can’t penetrate lead, Time couldn’t penetrate a stasis field.

They had a device, a stasis field that forms invulnerable protection and freezes time within; we have never been able to understand the principle and copies do not work, but we have found them occasionally, and they can be deactivated.

‘Those might be stasis emissions.’ She sounded unhappy at suggesting that, and Sean grunted. No stasis field could maintain itself from internal power, and there wasn’t enough available from the powered-down plants of the other facilities to sustain that many fields with broadcast power.

When everyone is accounted for, we'll place a stasis field around them.