Newspeak
- noun
- The language of Oceania, devised to meet the ideological needs of Ingsoc.
- Source
- Nineteen Eighty-Four
Cyberspace
- noun
- A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system.
- Source
- Neuromancer
Nadsat
- noun
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- A youth dialect.
- A teenager.
- Origin
- -надцать, the Russian equivalent of ‘-teen’.
- Source
- A Clockwork Orange
Esper
- noun
- A person with psychic powers.
- Origin
- Abbreviation of ‘extra-sensory perception’.
- Source
- The Demolished Man
Grok
- verb
- To understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the observed.
- Source
- Stranger in a Strange Land
Gigadeathcrime
- noun
- A criminal act causing billions of deaths.
- Source
- Excession
Kipple
- noun
- Accumulated detritus.
- Source
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?