- noun
- The light reflected by orbiting artificial satellites seen in the night sky.
- Origin
- Space junk, objects in orbit with no useful purpose.
- Source
- Against A Dark Background
- noun
- A virus that makes a group of infectees better able to anticipate one another’s reactions.
- Source
- Against A Dark Background
- noun informal
- The area of space between the Fringe and the highly civilized worlds around Old Earth.
- Origin
- Derived from ‘jumbled’ in reference to the effects of the Double War on these planet’s civilizations.
- Source
- Dying Of The Light
- noun plural
- Collective term for all the worlds of the Fringe; those fourteen human colonies between the Tempter’s Veil and the Great Black Sea.
- Source
- Dying Of The Light
- noun
- The surface of a planet.
- Origin
- “Dirtside – that was the only word for it. What did the globes of dust have to offer after the clear sharp world of space?”
- Source
- Spaceship Medic
- noun
- A journey in a self-driving vehicle to a destination selected at random.
- Origin
- Coined after the idiom “take for a spin”.
- Source
- He Who Shapes
- noun
- A body with unmodified anatomy.
- Source
- The Keys to December
- noun
- The structure of actuality; orthogonal futures and pasts that fluoresce from the universe as it is, and from those into others, and others, always at right angles to the stream of time.
- Origin
- Back-formation from ‘orthogonal’.
- Source
- Great Work of Time