Vonda N. McIntyre
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| android n. | 1981 Entropy Effect iii. 86 An android duplicate. Clones. Clones, hell, maybe he had a twin brother. |
| beam v. | 1981 Entropy Effect v. 130 Wellโฆone could beam from one place, to the transporter room, then to another place. |
| continuum n. | 1981 Entropy Effect Prologue p. 6 Dust swirled down toward the puncture in the continuum. |
| gravitic adj. | 1982 Wrath of Khan Prologue 9 The message was only intermittantly comprehensible. โโฆ gravitic mine, lost all power.โ |
| insectoid n. | 1981 Straining Your Eyes Through Viewscreen Blues in F. Herbert Nebula Winners Fifteen 80 This is a slightly less blatant version of the game of space opera, in which one writes a western, then trades earth for Omega Orion XI, trades the six-guns for lasers, masers, rasers, phasers, or occasionally for broadswords and crossbows (in a high-tech civilization, mind you); the horses transmute to FTL starcruisers, the cleancut collegiate-type good guys in white hats turn into cleancut collegiate-type good guys in mylar jumpsuits, and the squinty-eyed bad guys in black hats turn into clones, giant ambulatory carrots, humanoids, virusoids, or insectoids (or vice-versa, depending on oneโs level of xenophobia). |
| offworlder n. | 1978 Dreamsnake (1979) ii. 46 It was the place the offworlders sometimes landed. |
| sailship n. | 1974 Mountains of Sunset in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Feb. 106/1 She had not minded trading hunting grounds for sailship cubicles: the universe lay waiting. She entered the ship young and eager. |
| sense of wonder n. | 1981 Straining Your Eyes Through Viewscreen Blues in F. Herbert Nebula Winners Fifteen When I was a kid I used to wonder why people in sf stories always wrote with a stylus; I was curious what a stylus was and what made it different from a pencil or a pen. Imagine the damage to my sense of wonder when I realized that a stylus was a pencil or a pen, that all those exotic-sounding cold drinks were martinis or beer, that all those interesting hot drinks were coffee or tea. |
| shapechanger n. | 1981 Entropy Effect v.137 It is also possible that the Enterprise is playing host to a shape-changer. |
| sublight n. | 1981 Entropy Effect iii. 76 'Twould be better to stay at sublight. |
| subspace n. | 1981 Entropy Effect Prologue 6 We're receiving a subspace transmission. |
| transporter n. | 1981 Entropy Effect v. 130 Wellโฆone could beam from one place, to the transporter room, then to another place. |
| utopian adj. | 1981 Entropy Effect v. 124 The present may seem Utopian to you. |
| zero-g n. | 1981 Entropy Effect i. 43 At the crystal growth station in the zero-g section of Aleph Prime. |