sound-pickup

Updated: May 4, 2025

The butler was probably a mixture of half a dozen primitive races; he was wearing one of his late master's evening suits, a bright mellow-pink, which was distinctly unflattering to his complexion. The sound-pickup was too far away to give him what they were saying, but the butler and maid were waving their arms and protesting vehemently.

H. Beam Piper - Time Crime

It was full dark when Konkrook came in view beyond the East Konk Mountains, a lurid smear on the underside of the clouds, and at Gongonk Island and at the Company farms to the south, a couple of bunches of searchlights were fingering about in the sky. When von Schlichten turned on the outside sound-pickup, he could hear the distant tom-tomming of heavy guns, and the crash of shells and bombs.

H. Beam Piper - Ullr Uprising