- verb informal
- To travel in a spaceship that is nearly as fast as light.
- Source
- The Shobies’ Story
- noun
- A bio-synthetic being spawned from a mother-machine.
- Origin
- Naqal (imitation).
- Source
- Oblivion: A Journey
- noun
- An airborne swarm of self-organising inanimate matter.
- Origin
- Nekrós (the dead).
- Source
- The Invincible
- noun
- Specialised animal tissue bred to transmit signals over long distances.
- Source
- The Crucible of Time
- noun
- A type of artificial habitat composed of multiple twisting tubes, complexly intertwined.
- Source
- Matter
- 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