holocube

plural holocubes · alternative holo cube · alternative holo-cube

1. literatureA cube-shaped device that shows or stores holographic pictures.

   Not a cassette, not an infodisk, not a holocube, but an actual book, with a cover and binding and pages.

   1992, Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg, The Positronic Man, New York: Doubleday, page 25

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   One wall was a huge holo cube displaying Geneva's table of organization, a spidery orange pyramid with tens of thousands of names connected by lines, from the mayor at the top to the “corridor security” people at the base.

   1976, Joe Haldeman, The Forever War, New York: Ballantine Books, page 113

   He snapped a holo-cube into the projector and switched on. I gasped and shrank back in my seat as a great crustacean sprang into being in front of me, blind, chitinous, rust-red, and malevolent.

   1978, Charles Sheffield, “The Deimos Plague”, in Stellar Science Fiction Stories, n 4, New York: Del Rey, p 146

   And on a little table beside the bed, he found a holocube with a tiny picture of a woman wearing a yellow dress in it. When he moved the ’cube, the woman waved at him and laughed.

   1990, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, volume 79, page 113