Julian May
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| cityship n. | 1953 Star of Wonder in Thrilling Wonder Stories Feb. 86/1 Leaning forward swiftly to the control panel Hondra tuned in the assembly hall of the nearest cityship. It was in an uproar. The image of the home planet remained on its screen. Most of the people raised their arms toward it and wept, while others streamed up and over the seats in exultant frenzy. |
| home sun n. | 1983 Nonborn King 256 He had begun the hunt by examining the rare star-group containing the Lylmik home-sun. |
| impeller n. | 1983 Nonborn King v. 273 The sky was brilliant cobalt without a cloud, and the air almost dead calm; but the vessel was making a steady six knots, its solar-powered impeller augmented by metapsychic thrust from the PK specialists on watch. |
| mind-controlled adj. | 1984 The Adversary 202 If I wipe out the schematics and certain irreplaceable pieces of manufacturing apparatus—fleck-etchers, photonic alloying machines, mind-controlled micromanipulators—no one will ever build the Guderian device here. |
| regeneration tank n. | 1981 Many-Colored Land (1983) 25 The wounded actor was philosophical about his three months in the regeneration tank. ‘Just the hazards of the trade, kid,’ he had told his remorseful attacker. |
| teleview n. | 1981 Many-Colored Land (1982) 67
Mercedes Lamballe’s teleview number responded with a |
| thought screen n. | 1992 Jack the Bodiless 346 It did Paul no good to erect a thought-screen when that young devil was around—not that the lowliest normal could have failed to read on Paul’s face what the decision had been. |
| thought shield n. | 1983 Nonborn King 128 It is virtually impossible, even for a Grand Master, to probe deep thought levels at a distance. It is also difficult or impossible to farsense a person who has erected a superior thought-shield. |