Posts in category “book”
- interjection
- Contraction of je suis d’accord.
- Origin
- Popularised by French Canadian hockey players in the twenty-first century.
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- The Shockwave Rider
- verb
- To devalue or invalidate something.
- Origin
- Possibly a contraction of ‘de-validate’.
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- The Shockwave Rider
- noun
- Death of an uploaded mind without a backup.
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- The Fractal Prince
- noun
- A device for transmitting the sensorium.
- Origin
- Phonetic transcription of “be me”.
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- The Fractal Prince
- noun plural
- Rogue nanomachines.
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- The Fractal Prince
- noun
- A portable device worn over the eye by citizens, connecting them to the city’s pervasive information network.
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- A Memory Called Empire
- noun
- A mutable, foldable, transparent plastic which can display images and text.
- Origin
- Abbreviation of ‘information’ and fiche (a card).
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- A Memory Called Empire
- noun
- An augmented projection of the current locale.
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- Spime, an object that can be tracked in space and time.
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- The Quantum Thief
- noun
- A person who possesses a fortune of time.
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- Portmanteau of ‘millennium’ and ‘millionaire’.
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- The Quantum Thief
- noun
- The sundering of a moon.
- Origin
- Derived from selḗnē (moon) and klásma (a fragment).
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- Fiasco
- noun
- A device able to freeze a person in a cylinder of liquid nitrogen to preserve the body in case of catastrophe.
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- Formed from vitri (glass) and ‘fax’ – fac simile (“make like”).
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- Fiasco
- noun
- A parallel timeline.
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- Abbreviated from ‘alternate reality’.
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- Unholy Land