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  • The youngsters sat for hours in front of the tri-d screen, going through the gig's library of tapes.

    First Fall McCaffrey, Anne 1993

  • The youngsters sat for hours in front of the tri-d screen, going through the gig's library of tapes.

    The Chronicles of Pern McCaffrey, Anne 1993

  • The large room they entered had a plasglas viewplate from floor to ceiling directly aligned with the escape pod, a hundred metres below, but optically the gloss was altered to produce a tri-d effect that made the observer feel he was no more than a few feet from the pod.

    Damia's Children McCaffrey, Anne 1993

  • The youngsters sat for hours in front of the tri-d screen, going through the gig's library of tapes.

    Chronicles of Pern, First Fall McCaffrey, Anne 1993

  • We can't get the tri-d TV stations out here of course, thank the Great Green Arkleseizure, but you hear her on the radio, gallivanting here and there through space/time.

    Mostly Harmless Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1992

  • So she appeared at the boat yard, promptly at the tone of seven on the tri-d blaring from the boat yard office window, in workmanlike gear, and a change tied on to the handlebars of the cycle.

    The Rowan McCaffrey, Anne 1990

  • She stared longest at one of the Earth boys because Barinov was as handsome as a tri-d performer, with blond and curly hair that he wore long to his bare shoulders: he'd been hologrammed in swimming briefs.

    The Rowan McCaffrey, Anne 1990

  • Take for example, the case of Brequinda on the Foth of Avalars, famed in myth, legend and stultifyingly dull tri-d mini-serieses as home of the magnificent and magical Fuolornis Fire Dragon.

    So long, and thanks for all the fish Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1984

  • It was conclusively proven that more people watched the tri-d coverage of the launch than actually existed at the time, and this has now been recognized as the greatest achievement ever in the science of audience research.

    Life, the Universe, and Everything Adams, Douglas, 1952-2001 1982

  • Sulu had seen the palace many times in the prince’s tri-d’s; but he had not expected to see it in person.

    Shadow Lord Laurence Yep 2000

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