- 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
- noun
- A device used to prepare a time traveller’s cellular structure and brain patterns for survival in their selected time period.
- Origin
- Derived from atavus (ancestor) and khrónos (time).
- Source
- Star Trek: The Original Series
- noun
- An artificial male lover.
- Source
- A Borrowed Man
- noun plural
- Life that wells up in unexpected ways whenever darkness falls on the city.
- Origin
- Pairing of ‘nocturnal’ with the Latin suffix -alia (nominalization/intensification).
- Source
- Borne
- noun
- A child.
- Origin
- Abbreviation of ‘progeny’.
- Source
- Stand on Zanzibar
- noun
- A creature that contracts its body when one end is in fresh water and the other in salt water, bred for use as a pump or motor.
- Source
- The Crucible of Time
- noun
- Specialised animal tissue bred to transmit signals over long distances.
- Source
- The Crucible of Time
- noun
- A word, which when spoken inveigles its way into the mind of the speaker and manifests itself in his flesh.
- Origin
- Named for the parasitic manifestation caused by the word.
- Source
- Entry Taken from a Medical Encyclopedia
- noun
- An animal bred for slavery, genetically similar to a human.
- Source
- Good Mountain
- noun
- A device able to freeze a person in a cylinder of liquid nitrogen to preserve the body in case of catastrophe.
- Origin
- Formed from vitri (glass) and ‘fax’ – fac simile (“make like”).
- Source
- Fiasco