- noun
- A reconstruction of a deceased person, cloned from their DNA and implanted with their scanned memories.
- Origin
- Portmanteau of ‘reconstruction’ and ‘clone’.
- Source
- A Borrowed Man
- noun
- A person who uses terrorism as a medium for artistic expression.
- Origin
- Portmanteau of ‘terrorist’ and ‘artist’.
- Source
- Neom
- noun
- A technology that can build any object from surrounding matter.
- Origin
- Portmanteau of ‘embryo’ and ‘mechanical’.
- Source
- Neom
- noun
- An optical character reader and universal language translator for text.
- Origin
- Derived from legere (to read) and Automat (machine).
- Source
- Changing Planes
- noun
- A universal language translator for speech.
- Origin
- Pairing of ‘translate’ and Automat (machine).
- Source
- Changing Planes
- 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 number whose existence can only be defined as being anything other than itself.
- Origin
- Portmanteau of ‘reciprocal’, ‘reverse’, and ‘exclusion’.
- Source
- Life, the Universe and Everything
- noun
- A telephone able to place calls across time and space.
- Origin
- Derived from tempus (time) and phone (sound).
- Source
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
- noun
- A device that holds the area within static, relative to the universe without.
- Source
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
- noun
- A training process in which the student is medicated into a trance-like state that results in perfect recall.
- Origin
- Derived from the acronym EPT (‘education for particular tasks’).
- Source
- Stand on Zanzibar