Roger MacBride Allen
2 Quotations from Roger MacBride Allen
| downtime adj. | 2000 Depths of Time (2001) 4 Why hadnβt the Standfast, the downtime ship, sent some sort of alert throughthe shaftlink comm system?β¦ The signal had been flashed from the Standfast to the downtime stationkeeping laser relay. |
| graser n. | [1990 Ring of Charon iii. 49 Webling had been working for some time on developing a focused beam of gravity wavesβa βgraser.β Like light, gravity was usually radiated in all directions from its source. But, like light, it could be manipulated, focused down into a one-dimensional beam.] |