- noun
- The language of Oceania, devised to meet the ideological needs of Ingsoc.
- Source
- Nineteen Eighty-Four
- noun plural
- Life that wells up in unexpected ways whenever darkness falls on the city.
- Origin
- Pairing of ‘nocturnal’ with the Latin suffix -alia (nominalization/intensification).
- Source
- Borne
- noun
- A body with unmodified anatomy.
- Source
- The Keys to December
- adjective
- Of a child: born after the waning years of the On-Off sun.
- Origin
- Abbreviation of ‘out of phase’.
- Source
- A Deepness in the Sky
- noun
- The structure of actuality; orthogonal futures and pasts that fluoresce from the universe as it is, and from those into others, and others, always at right angles to the stream of time.
- Origin
- Back-formation from ‘orthogonal’.
- Source
- Great Work of Time
- noun
- The pilot of an armoured assault hovercraft used for cross-border smuggling.
- Origin
- Panzer (armour plating).
- Source
- Hardwired
- noun
- A device enabling travel to parallel time lines.
- Origin
- Derived from pará (nearby) and khrónos (time).
- Source
- Eutopia