- noun
- A private apartment in a shared building.
- Origin
- Abbreviation of ‘condominium apartment’.
- Source
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- noun
- The region of the human brain responsible for telepathic ability.
- Source
- Solar Lottery
- noun
- A personalised newspaper containing only news items in which the reader has expressed an interest.
- Origin
- Abbrevation of ‘homeostatic newspaper’.
- Source
- Ubik
- noun informal
- A telepath.
- Source
- Solar Lottery
- noun
- A one-way telepath, able to transmit thoughts to others but unable to read minds.
- Origin
- Derived from ‘telepath’.
- Source
- The Stars My Destination
- noun
- A specialist in the analysis of alien technology.
- Origin
- Abbreviation of ‘xeno-technologist’.
- Source
- Gateway
- noun
- A device for sending and receiving wireless voice communications.
- Origin
- Formed from the prefix piezo- (relating to piezoelectricity) and phone (sound).
- Source
- Gateway
- noun
- A device for composing songs entirely by mechanical means.
- Origin
- Pairing of ‘verse’ with the French suffix -ificateur (to realise an action).
- Source
- Nineteen Eighty-Four