- noun
- An online tabloid news publication.
- Origin
- Coined after the sensationalist reporting style.
- Source
- Hardwired
- noun
- A person who uses terrorism as a medium for artistic expression.
- Origin
- Portmanteau of ‘terrorist’ and ‘artist’.
- Source
- Neom
- noun
- An entity or phenomenon which harvests and consumes information, particularly information about itself.
- Origin
- Meme, a unit of cultural information transmitted from one mind to another.
- Source
- There Is No Antimemetics Division
- interjection
- Contraction of je suis d’accord.
- Origin
- Popularised by French Canadian hockey players in the twenty-first century.
- Source
- The Shockwave Rider
- adjective
- Of a child: born after the waning years of the On-Off sun.
- Origin
- Abbreviation of ‘out of phase’.
- Source
- A Deepness in the Sky
- noun
- A reconstruction of a deceased person of historic note, created from their corpus of documented works.
- Origin
- Coined with allusion to reincarnation.
- Source
- Accelerando
- verb
- Recreational use of the anti-cancer drug Reboot™ for the purpose of experiencing its notable gender-reassignment side effect.
- Source
- Changes
- 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
- noun
- A professional performer of interactive fiction.
- Origin
- Abbreviation of ‘interactive (“ractive”) actor’.
- Source
- The Diamond Age
- noun
- A computer-generated artificial actor appearing in motion pictures.
- Origin
- Portmanteau of ‘synthetic’ and ‘thespian’.
- Source
- Idoru
- noun
- A device allowing the operator to compose music automatically.
- Origin
- Derived from metron (measure).
- Source
- We
- noun
- A device for composing songs entirely by mechanical means.
- Origin
- Pairing of ‘verse’ with the French suffix -ificateur (to realise an action).
- Source
- Nineteen Eighty-Four