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Visions of Invisibility in Fiction
Long before the advent of optical cloaking, authors of science fiction were imagining how it could work—-and making some good guesses in the process.
Since the publication of two pioneering papers in 2006, invisibility—or, more specifically, optical cloaking—has become a topic of intense research and popular attention. Long before this, however, writers of science fiction and horror were drawing from the physics of their time to conceive their own visions of invisibility. Their ideas were surprisingly sophisticated and occasionally forward-thinking.
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