- adjective
- Having or appearing to have length, breadth, and depth.
- Origin
- Abbreviation of ‘tri-dimensional’.
- Source
- Embassytown
- noun
- A species not originating from the planet Terre.
- Origin
- Formed from éxō (foreign) and terra (ground).
- Source
- Embassytown
- verb
- Practising the life-technique of aggregated skill, luck, laziness and chutzpah.
- Origin
- Coined by immersers.
- Source
- Embassytown
- noun
- A crewperson aboard a vessel that breaches the meniscus of everyday space.
- Origin
- Derived from immersum (under the surface) and nautēs (sailor).
- Source
- Embassytown
- noun plural
- Fast moving symbiotic organisms that invade the human body and cause it to grow new parts.
- Origin
- Derived from drómos (running) and zôion (animal).
- Source
- A Planet Named Shayol
- noun
- Matter and anti-matter locked in a fine magnetic grid to ward off the outermost perils of space.
- Source
- The Rediscovery of Man
- adjective
- Able to distort time.
- Origin
- Formed from khrónos (time) and the suffix -pathic (abnormality).
- Source
- The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal
- verb
- A method of faster-than-light travel that involves compressing space into two dimensions.
- Origin
- Pairing of ‘plane’ (a flat surface) and ‘form’.
- Source
- The Game of Rat and Dragon
- verb
- To make oneself receptive to sensory and emotional stimuli.
- Source
- Scanners Live in Vain
- noun
- A brand of ocular prosthesis.
- Origin
- Abbreviated from ‘luxurious video’.
- Source
- The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
- noun
- A simulacrum family unit.
- Origin
- Family Next Door, a product of Frauenzimmer Associates.
- Source
- The Simulacra
- noun
- A community of women and children without an adult male presence.
- Source
- Solitude