Barbara Hambly
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19 Quotations from Barbara Hambly
| android n. | 1994 Crossroad xvii. 256 She had finally found him, or the android he had built to house his mind and personality, he had built for himself an android geisha. |
| 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 Spock’s 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. |
| hyperspace n. | 1994 Crossroad xi. 147 The rumor a ship appearing…without long-range effect on the fabric of hyperspace, had flown like lightning among the crew. |
| jumpship n. | 1994 Crossroad 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 They’d seen thousands of them on planets that the Prime Directive had forbidden them to touch. |
| Singularity n. | 1994 Crossroad x.142 We’ll make a run for the singularity shear and hope their phaser targeting is thrown out of calibration. |
| 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. |
| time warp n. | 1985 Ishmael iv. 59 Time warps can be created. |
| viewscreen n. | 1985 Ishmael i. 17 Kirk realized he was still staring half-hypnotized at the small darkness of his cabin viewscreen. |