Posts tagged with “habitation”
- noun
- A tower of superstressed concrete three kilometres high; home to 800,000 people.
- Origin
- Abbreviation of ‘urban monad’.
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- The World Inside
- noun
- Artificial outdoor lighting with an effect resembling starlight.
- Origin
- Astrum (star).
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- The White Pony
- noun
- A species not originating from the planet Terre.
- Origin
- Formed from éxō (foreign) and terra (ground).
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- Embassytown
- noun
- A community of women and children without an adult male presence.
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- Solitude
- noun
- One’s fellow resident in a shared household.
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- Coming of Age in Karhide
- noun archaic
- A person not native to the planet they are inhabiting.
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- Planet of Exile
- noun
- An apartment in a high-density urban zone.
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- True Names
- noun
- A cohabitant from a lower level of the great indoors.
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- Love Comes to the Middleman
- noun proper
- The Earth.
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- Norstrilia
- noun
- Seasonal vegetation that grows into irregular temporary housing.
- Origin
- Pairing of ‘adapt’ and ‘plant’.
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- Central Station
- adjective
- Short form of the phrase “down the gravity well” – i.e. located on the surface of a planet.
- adverb
- From orbit to the surface of a planet.
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- Accelerando
- noun
- A fortified private surburb with its own by-laws and police force.
- Origin
- Portmanteau of ‘suburb’ and ‘enclave’.
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- Snow Crash