Naffle

verb informal
To travel in a spaceship that is nearly as fast as light.
Source
The Shobies’ Story

Nakalchi

noun
A bio-synthetic being spawned from a mother-machine.
Origin
Naqal (imitation).
Source
Oblivion: A Journey

Neantics

noun
The ontology of nothingness.
Origin
Derived from neán (young).
Source
The Sanatorium of Dr Vliperdius

Necrosphere

noun
An airborne swarm of self-organising inanimate matter.
Origin
Nekrós (the dead).
Source
The Invincible

Neighborling

noun
A cohabitant from a lower level of the great indoors.
Source
Love Comes to the Middleman

Nervograp

noun
Specialised animal tissue bred to transmit signals over long distances.
Source
The Crucible of Time

Nestworld

noun
A type of artificial habitat composed of multiple twisting tubes, complexly intertwined.
Source
Matter

Newspeak

noun
The language of Oceania, devised to meet the ideological needs of Ingsoc.
Source
Nineteen Eighty-Four

Nocturnalia

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

Normform

noun
A body with unmodified anatomy.
Source
The Keys to December

Notchcube

noun
A grey brick slightly larger than a fist; the basic building block of many Supra City megastructures.
Origin
Presumed to be coined after the creator of Minecraft, Markus “Notch” Persson.
Source
The Causal Angel

Oophase

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