Posts tagged with “profession”
- noun
- An archaeologist, patronizingly rendered into today’s speech by some of the more learned folk.
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- The Crucible of Time
- noun informal
- Abbreviation of ‘mise-en-crime technical investigator’.
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- Pun on mise en scène
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- The City & The City
- noun
- A chosen individual who explores and documents the Astral Plane.
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- Pun on ‘astronaut’.
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- Control
- noun
- A crewperson aboard a vessel that breaches the meniscus of everyday space.
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- Derived from immersum (under the surface) and nautēs (sailor).
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- Embassytown
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- The intrepid breed of men that go down into the uncharted seas of time gas below Earth’s crust.
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- Derived from terra (ground) and nautēs (traveller).
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- The Night That All Time Broke Out
- noun informal
- An ethnologist of high intelligence life forms.
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- Rocannon’s World
- noun
- A person who makes recordings of their sensorium.
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- Portmanteau of ‘memory’ and ‘recordist’.
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- Central Station
- noun
- An advisor in matters of fealty.
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- Surface Detail
- noun
- A person who designs the topography of artificial land masses.
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- Formed from geo (Earth) and téktōn (builder).
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- The Diamond Age
- noun
- A professional performer of interactive fiction.
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- Abbreviation of ‘interactive (“ractive”) actor’.
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- The Diamond Age
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- A computer-generated artificial actor appearing in motion pictures.
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- Portmanteau of ‘synthetic’ and ‘thespian’.
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- Idoru
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- (plural proper) An international organisation defending Earth from extraterrestrial invasion.
- A member of the Xenonauts defence force.
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- Derived from ksenos (foreign) and nautēs (traveller).
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- Xenonauts