Posts in category “book”
- noun
- A device that holds the area within static, relative to the universe without.
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- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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- A really amazingly together guy.
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- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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- Pattern generation by deductive and inductive reasoning.
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- Stand on Zanzibar
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- A training process in which the student is medicated into a trance-like state that results in perfect recall.
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- Derived from the acronym EPT (‘education for particular tasks’).
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- Stand on Zanzibar
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- A child.
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- Abbreviation of ‘progeny’.
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- Stand on Zanzibar
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- An an urbmon resident who commits non-social acts.
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- “They flip; they thwart.”
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- The World Inside
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- A tower of superstressed concrete three kilometres high; home to 800,000 people.
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- Abbreviation of ‘urban monad’.
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- The World Inside
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- An entity or phenomenon which harvests and consumes information, particularly information about itself.
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- Meme, a unit of cultural information transmitted from one mind to another.
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- There Is No Antimemetics Division
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- An archaeologist, patronizingly rendered into today’s speech by some of the more learned folk.
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- The Crucible of Time
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- A mount that allows a telescope to accurately follow the motion of the night sky.
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- Formed from ástron (a celestial body) and trópos (a turn).
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- The Crucible of Time
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- A creature that contracts its body when one end is in fresh water and the other in salt water, bred for use as a pump or motor.
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- The Crucible of Time
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- Specialised animal tissue bred to transmit signals over long distances.
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- The Crucible of Time