- noun informal
- A person fitted with an electronic implant to stimulate the pleasure centres of the brain.
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- The Ringworld Engineers
- noun proper
- A city that encircles a planet.
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- The Hydrogen Sonata
- noun
- A ring-shaped artificial habitat encircling a star.
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- Ringworld
- noun informal
- A mentally retarded person.
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- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- noun
- A recording or broadcast of the sensorium.
- Origin
- Abbreviation of ‘simulated stimulation’.
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- Neuromancer
- noun
- Crewman aboard a time-travelling vessel.
- Origin
- Derived from tempus (time) and nautēs (sailor).
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- A Little Something for Us Tempunauts
- noun
- The language of Oceania, devised to meet the ideological needs of Ingsoc.
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- Nineteen Eighty-Four
- noun
- A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system.
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- Neuromancer
- noun
- A person with psychic powers.
- Origin
- Abbreviation of ‘extra-sensory perception’.
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- The Demolished Man