Form-Fitting Furniture And Other Futuristic Props

The Star Fox, Part Two.

Form-fitting furniture (scroll down) is another standard Andersonian futuristic prop. (Note who invented it here.) Here is another example of such furniture that we have not noted before:

"She waved him to her lounger, but he took a chair instead. Jocelyn chuckled and relaxed in the form-fitting seat." (II, p. 87)

Later, Heim does unwind enough to move to the lounger...

I suspect that I have read past some form-fitting furniture recently without stopping to make a note of it. We need to be alert at all times when rereading Poul Anderson.

Another sf writer would be able to create a narrative incorporating every such prop which also include aircars, TrafCon, autopilots and gravshafts. Earlier in this novel:

"Heim claimed his flyer at the garage and fretted while TrafCon stalled about sending him aloft. Quite a time passed before the pattern of vehicle movement released him." (Part One, II, p. 32)

"He set the autopilot for Orly..." (ibid.)

- then bathed, ate and slept while travelling.

"They went downshaft in silence to the garage, and entered his flyer..." (Part One, IX, p. 63)