Michael Reaves

needle-beam n.	2004 S. Perry & M. Reaves Battle Surgeons xxxviii. 289 Before he [sc. Jos] could change course, the droid’s right index finger, which was pointed at the stingwort, fired a needle beam of bright red coherent light at it. Without slowing his pace, I-Five carefully moved his finger back and forth, incinerating a one-meter-wide path through the dangerous growth as he passed through it.
planet-hopper n. 2	2011 M. Reaves & M. K. Bohnhoff Shadow Games (Star Wars) vi. 44 The Nova’s Heart was equipped with a secondary shuttle—a prettier, glossier counterpart to the stubby little planet-hopper they’d arrived in.