- 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
- noun informal
- The Dillon-Wagoner gravitron polarity generator, an anti-gravity device that also enables faster-than-light travel.
- Origin
- Named for the device’s effect on the magnetic moment of atoms within its field.
- Source
- Cities in Flight
- noun
- A biomechatronic robot.
- Origin
- Portmanteau of ‘biological’ and ‘robot’.
- Source
- Rendezvous With Rama
- noun
- A perpetual power source of extraterrestrial inception.
- Origin
- Portmanteau of ‘space’ and (power-) ‘cell’.
- Source
- Roadside Picnic
- verb
- The dissolution, dissociation, and total dissipation of a monarch.
- Origin
- Formed from ‘monarch’ and lúsis (loosening).
- Source
- The Cyberiad
- noun
- Interior stars of a Shellworld which roll across the upper surface of each layer.
- Source
- Matter
- noun
- A person who designs the topography of artificial land masses.
- Origin
- Formed from geo (Earth) and téktōn (builder).
- Source
- The Diamond Age
- noun
- A sentient oceanic life form covering the surface of the planet Solaris.
- Origin
- Polús (many), possibly in combination with thera (“of her”).
- Source
- Solaris
- noun
- Skyglow caused by neon advertisements featuring corporate logos.
- Origin
- Abbreviation of ‘logo glow’.
- Source
- Snow Crash