Kevin J. Anderson

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Kevin J. Anderson

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datapad n. 1995 K. J. Anderson Darksaber xxxv. 232 She sighed and turned to Pellaeon, who stood holding a datapad with the latest fleet statistics.
dirtside adv. 1993 D. Beason & K. J. Anderson Assemblers of Infinity i. 12 If the wizards back dirtside keep their part of the bargain, we could have a working fusion plant by early next year.
Earthside adj. 1993 D. Beason & K. J. Anderson Assemblers of Infinity Prologue 2 The scientists Earthside were screaming about their interrupted VLP data.
Earthside adv. 1993 D. Beason & K. J. Anderson Assemblers of Infinity Prologue 2 The scientists Earthside were screaming about their interrupted VLP data.
escape ship n. 1996 K. J. Anderson & R. Moesta Jedi Under Siege xix. 173 As the escape ship fled from the Shadow Academy and the Yavin system, the last surviving guard acknowledged to himself that the military forces he left behind would be defeated utterly.
life tube n. 2003 K. J. Anderson Forest of Stars xcv. 318 Zhett saw a battered lifetube that had been ejected from an EDF cruiser, a single-man pod. Though its systems had been severely damaged, she detected one life sign aboard. The reflective hull, scorched and scarred, had begun leaking air. It wouldn’t last much longer.
nanomachine n. 1993 D. Beason & K. J. Anderson Assemblers of Infinity 37 39, I think you'll find these are the most promising nanomachines yet.
needle pistol n. 2007 B. Herbert & K. J. Anderson Sandworms of Dune (2008) 337 The child clamped the cutter between her teeth, tucked the needle pistol into her small shirt, and began to creep through the vent.
nightside n. 1993 D. Beason & K. J. Anderson Assemblers of Infinity ii.23 New windows opened to display telemetry, a CAD animation showing the attitude of the hopper and a rotating globe of the Moon displaying trajectories with a targeting cross over Daedalus Crater on the nightside.
overmind n. 2001 ‘G. Mesta’ Shadow of Xel’Naga xvi. 105 These prototype Zerg had rapidly adapted and assimilated all of the native species there, and as their race grew more powerful and more intelligent, the fledgling Zerg overmind had reached a critical point, a roadblock that prevented it from expanding further. The Zerg were planet-bound—until the star-sailing behemoths had wandered into the system. Immense and docile creatures of the airless void, the behemoths drifted close enough that the Overmind had called out to them with its great telepathic powers.
space-suited adj. 1993 D. Beason & K. J. Anderson Assemblers of Infinity xx.189 Parvu could see the dark form of a spacesuited body caught among the twisted controls.
spacing n. 1 2014 B. Herbert & K. J. Anderson Mentats of Dune 228 He has created a vast invisible network, like a cancer working through the Imperium—he owns the largest spacing fleet, the only one with access to Navigators for safe transport.