Outworlds

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

Endwife

noun
A woman who has vowed to tend the stricken, help the hurt to live, and bury the dead.
Origin
Pairing of ‘end’ (cessation) and wif (woman).
Source
The Deep

Autopsychomimesis

noun
A self-perpetuated imitation complex.
Source
He Who Shapes

Dirtside

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

Blindspin

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

Normform

noun
A body with unmodified anatomy.
Source
The Keys to December

Orthogony

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

Lectrospecs

noun
Spectacles with augmented- and virtual-reality capabilities.
Origin
Corruption of ‘electric spectacles’.
Source
Friends in Need

Cursism

noun
Bigotry towards those inflicted with a Hag curse.
Source
Ootheca

Trollburg

noun
A large animal that can house a population of occupants in symbiosis.
Origin
Portmanteau of troll (a giant supernatural being) and burg (town).
Source
Two Moons

Oxygarette

noun
A type of cigarette that releases oxygen spiced with stimulants when burned.
Origin
Pairing of ‘oxygen’ and ‘cigarette’.
Source
Proposition 23

Pastorpreneur

noun
A spiritual leader primarily engaged in moneymaking activities.
Origin
Portmanteau of ‘pastor’ and ‘entrepreneur’.
Source
Godmother