Autodarwinate

verb
To commit evolutionary self-deselection (suicide).
Origin
Charles Darwin; evolution of species by natural selection.
Source
Accelerando

Spla

adjective informal
A state of intense anger or agitation.
Origin
Possibly a truncation of dysplasia (bad formation) in reference to the idiom “bent out of shape”.
Source
The Word for World is Forest

Xenovox

noun
A portable device for sending and receiving voice communications over long distances.
Origin
Derived from ksenos (foreign) and vox (voice).
Source
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Confliction

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

Revent

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

Leptosoul

noun
The essence of a person’s phylogenetic tradition.
Origin
Leptós (thin).
Source
The Godwhale

Chrownotransductionology

noun
Temporal slippage induced by chrownons; in other words: timely travel.
Origin
Professor Gladys Chrowdingler, discoverer of the chrownon.
Source
Automated Alice

Cryptosphere

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

Sensawunda

noun informal
A street drug that stimulates rapid cognition, having novotrophin-B and MDMA as ingredients.
Origin
Phonetic transcription of “sense-a-wonder”.
Source
Accelerando

Metacortex

noun
A distributed cloud of software agents that augments the computational power of the human brain.
Source
Accelerando

Andromorph

noun
A working animal genetically engineered to attain human likeness.
Origin
Andrós (“of man”) in combination with morphḗ (shape).
Source
Emphyrio

Spindizzy

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