- noun
- Seasonal vegetation that grows into irregular temporary housing.
- Origin
- Pairing of ‘adapt’ and ‘plant’.
- Source
- Central Station
- noun
- A person who makes recordings of their sensorium.
- Origin
- Portmanteau of ‘memory’ and ‘recordist’.
- Source
- Central Station
- noun
- A written document stored in electronic form.
- Source
- Light
- noun
- A variety of shrub native to Belzagor, able to detect nearby motion and withdraw its leaves as a defence against predators.
- Source
- Downward To The Earth
- noun
- An advisor in matters of fealty.
- Source
- Surface Detail
- noun
- A formal conflict within a virtual reality – i.e. one where the outcome matters beyond the confines of the battle environment itself.
- Origin
- Portmanteau of ‘conflict’ and ‘simulation’.
- Source
- Surface Detail
- verb
- The act of transferring the extracted mind-state of a dead person into a fresh body.
- Origin
- Derived from rĕ- (again) and veniō (“I come”).
- Source
- Surface Detail
- noun
- The essence of a person’s phylogenetic tradition.
- Origin
- Leptós (thin).
- Source
- The Godwhale
- noun
- Temporal slippage induced by chrownons; in other words: timely travel.
- Origin
- Professor Gladys Chrowdingler, discoverer of the chrownon.
- Source
- Automated Alice
- noun proper
- A networked worldwide data repository, containing the sum of recorded knowledge and populated by uploaded human minds.
- Origin
- Crypta (vault), from kruptós (hidden).
- Source
- Feersum Endjinn