Barbara Hambly

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astrogation n. | 1994 | Crossroad xi. 161 We're an independent research and communications corporation contracted to assist with astrogation.
astrogator n. | 1994 | Crossroad ii.17 My astrogator and supercargo. We're free traders.
beam v. | 1985 | Ishmael i. 19 Spockβs first transmission had come as the last of the Enterprise crew members were beaming aboard.
communicator n. | 1985 | Ishmael i.19 After a final, cautious communicator scan of the base, he returned to the ship himself.
holocam n. | 1997 | Star Wars: Planet of Twilight (1998) 289 As far as Luke could tell, there were no holocams or viewers in the stairwell: only a close-crowding monotony of permacrete walls, grimy with the brown tracks of drochs.
jumpship n. | 1994 | Crossroad (Star Trek: The Original Series) x. 132 A Fleet jumpship could have materialized inside the buoy ring.
Klingon n. | 1985 | Ishmael i. 9 And the Klingons are very skillful about things like that.
morph v. 2 | 1997 | Star Wars: Planet of Twilight (1998) 237 Pain stabbed through her⦠The soft-bodied thing that had fallen on her morphed out grabbing legs, hooks that sank into her flesh as she cried out and tried to pull it loose.
offworld adv. | 1997 | Star Wars: Planet of Twilight (1998) 385 He would be back to this world, he knew: to bring back the Guardians, when those who went offworld to form the droch-killing apparatus returned.
prime directive n. | 1985 | Ishmael xviii.235 Theyβd seen thousands of them on planets that the Prime Directive had forbidden them to touch.
space flight n. | 1985 | Ishmael x. 143 Earth history before we made contact with other space-flight civilizations is too limited for what we want.
speculative fiction n. 1 | 1985 | Ishmael xv. 207 The fathers of speculative fiction. Wells dealt in invasion of the Earth.
starbase n. | 1985 | Ishmael vii. 102 That hellish journey from Starbase Twelve to Alpha Eridani III.
timestream n. | 1985 | Ishmael xix. 252 We are, in fact, the product of a tampered time-stream already.