Damien Broderick
7 Quotations from Damien Broderick
| energy weapon n. | 1980 Dreaming Dragons (1981) 189 Into the effulgence of the arc-lit crystal mass, his plumage imperial, Anokersh huj Lers stepped like a prince. He bore no energy weapon; the people dared not risk such potency falling into the hands of the ferals. |
| neuronic adj. | 1964 The Sea’s Furthest End in J. Carnell New Writings in SF 1 172 The neuronic blast of the feedback as the field neutralized the positron stream held him crippled. |
| nova bomb n. | 1964 Sea's Furthest End in J. Carnell New Writings in SF 1 176 Two heavy cruisers, mile-long monoliths whose fields could withstand a nova-bomb, and whose armament could wipe out a system. |
| novum n. | 1995 Reading by Starlight 60 Sf is different, being, as we have seen, at least by vocation a mode grounded in a novum. |
| subjunctivity n. | 1992 Reading SF as a Mega-text in N.Y. Review of Science Fiction (# 47) July 8/2 Sf textuality, by contrast…is grounded in a different subjunctivity, one in which metonymy passes first through cascades of suspended paradigm sets, detached and sent aloft from any last vestige of quotidian referentiality. |
| temporal loop n. | 1980 Ballad of Bowsprit Bear’s Stead in U. K. LeGuin & V. Kidd Edges 55 ‘Do we have any evidence in the historical records of Marx and Smith still being here after the conference?’ ‘We don’t have any post-Earth record of them, period. That could mean anything. If you want to take them you you’ll just have to risk precipitating a temporal loop.’ |
| time opera n. | 1980 (title) The Dreaming Dragons: A Time Opera. |