Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction
Order by: alphabetical | chronological ( asc | desc )
| First date | Word | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| 1981 | Whoniverse n. (1981) | the fictional universe used as the setting for the British television series Doctor Who; (also) any media, fandom, etc. connected to Doctor Who |
| 1981 | xenoanthropologist n. (1981) | a person who studies alien cultures; a specialist in xenoanthropology n. |
| 1980 | carbonite n. (1980) | a carbon-based material in which a person can be cryogenically preserved |
| 1980 | Darth n. 2 (1980) | (used as a title before the name of someone regarded as evil or an enemy) |
| 1980 | replicant n. 1 (1980) | an artificial being in the form of a human or other creature; an android |
| 1980 | uplift v. (1980) | to transform a non-sentient species into a sentient species, esp. by genetic engineering |
| 1980 | uplift n. (1980) | the making of a sentient species from a non-sentient one, esp. by genetic engineering |
| 1980 | uplifting n. (1980) | = uplift n. |
| 1980 | xenopsychologist n. (1980) | a specialist in xenopsychology n. |
| 1979 | beanstalk n. (1979) | = space elevator n. |
| 1979 | coreward adj. (1979) | toward the center of a galaxy; cf. core n. |
| 1979 | cyborgization n. (1979) | the conversion of a biological organism into a cyborg n. |
| 1979 | filk singer n. (1979) | one who sings filk songs |
| 1979 | gameplay n. (1979) | the (characteristic) way in which a player interacts with an (electronic) game; the tactical aspects of play, such as rules, plot, etc., as distinct from graphics or sound effects |
| 1979 | generation starship n. (1979) | = generation ship n. |
| 1979 | gravitied adj. 2 (1979) | having artificial gravity |
| 1979 | gynoid n. (1979) | a robot having female or feminine characteristics; = robotrix n. |
| 1979 | SF/F/H n. (1979) | abbreviation for science fiction, fantasy, and horror |
| 1979 | xenocidal adj. (1979) | of, pertaining to, or involving xenocide n. |
| 1978 | dirtball n. (1978) | a planet |
| 1978 | downtime adj. (1978) | esp. in time-travel contexts: in or from the past; cf. uptime adj. |
| 1978 | filk v. (1978) | among science fiction and fantasy fans: to write or perform filk songs |
| 1978 | frak v. (1978) | (a euphemism for) fuck, in various senses and parts of speech |
| 1978 | infodump n. (1978) | a large (often unwieldy or indigestible) amount of information supplied all at once; spec. as background or descriptive information in a narrative |
| 1978 | K/S n. (1978) | a subgenre of science fiction, originally published in fanzines and now esp. online, in which the Star Trek characters Kirk and Spock are portrayed as having a homosexual relationship; (later) any similar fiction in which a pair of (established) male characters is so portrayed |
| 1978 | military SF n. (1978) | = military science fiction n. |
| 1978 | planetary romance n. (1978) | a subgenre of science fiction that focuses on adventures taken on a planet's surface, especially in which the description of the planet is integral to the story; a work in this subgenre |
| 1978 | regeneration n. (1978) | in the British television series Doctor Who: the process by which a Time Lord transforms themself into a new physical form, esp. after an experience that would otherwise be fatal; (also) a particular manifestation of a Time Lord |
| 1978 | technothriller n. (1978) | a thriller which employs science fictional technology or gadgetry |
| 1978 | transhuman n. (1978) | a person who has gained abilities (as through genetic engineering or cybernetic augmentation) sufficiently advanced that they are regarded as a different species |
| 1978 | urban fantasy n. (1978) | a genre of fantasy that uses a (modern) city as its primary setting; a work in this genre |
| 1977 | genre fantasy n. (1977) | stories, novels, etc. that are explicity written or published in the genre of fantasy, as opposed to ones which contain fantastic or supernatural elements but are written or published as mainstream fiction, or in another genre |