S. P. Somtow
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alien adj. | 1985 | Alien Swordmaster . i. 5 We stopped to couple with every alien life form we conquered.
cold sleep n. | 1985 | Alien Swordmaster . ii. 12 How long had she been in the cold sleep?
extraterrestrial adj. | 1985 | Alien Swordmaster . ii. 11 They would happen to be the first extraterrestrial civilization humans would encounter.
midspace n. | 1981 | Mallworld Graffiti in Asimov’s Science Fiction Aug. 150 Chaos! Cars were colliding in mid-space.
mother ship n. | 1985 | Alien Swordmaster . iii. 15 Our Mother Ship! That is what power is all about, Tomoko!
precog n. 2 | 1980 | Sing a Song of Mallworld in Asimov’s Science Fiction July 37 Was it a flash of unconscious precog that the psifi had caused to surface?
science-fictive adj. | 1982 | The What March? in Asimov’s Science Fiction 87 It isn’t in the usual run of the music I write; never, to my knowledge, has the school of neo-Asian post-serialism come up with even a single march, let alone a science-fictive one…. To begin with, this isn’t science fiction music at all.
sci-fi adj. | 1985 | Alien Swordmaster . ii. 11 She thought that was…just another sci-fi cliché.
shapechanging adj. | 1989 | Moon Dance x. 395 It was the song of one who wants to die, who awaits the coming of the shape-changing wolf.
shipmind n. | 1980 | Darktouch in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine Jan. 30 The shipmind can think us home readily enough…. It’s learned where the two anomalies are.
shipmind n. | 1979 | Web Dancer in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine Dec. 66 They’re navigated through the overcosm…by an astrogator who is in communion with a delphinoid shipmind…. Delphinoids are giant creatures who are all brain…. They’re cybernetically implanted into ships.
space car n. | 1980 | Rabid in Mallworld in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine June 23 So far from accumulating spacecars and holovee sets and other possessions, I worked my tail off, washing dishes at the most glamorous restaurant in the whole solar system.
spacecraft n. | 1985 | Alien Swordmaster . iii. 18 In the interior of another spacecraft, Visitors were collapsing, tearing off their human faces and showing the…horrors beneath.
starship n. | 1985 | Alien Swordmaster . vi. 39 The two enemy starships that were left had slowed their fire now.
transdimensional adj. | 1980 | Rabid in Mallworld in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction June 43 With enormous power expenditure it is possible to force open a transdimensional window.
Vegan adj. | 1980 | Rabid in Mallworld in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine June 24 There’s softshell malaprops marinated in angels’s tears, roast Vegan dingword, klitterbungas fried in oyster sauce, [etc.].
xenoanthropologist n. | 1981 | Vampire of Mallworld in Amazing Stories May 29 They were…screwing the creditfull [sic] thumbs of some fairly heavyweight clients…the Selespridon, a xeno-anthropologist, for instance, being one of the regulars. [ellipsis in orig.]