Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction
Order by: alphabetical | chronological ( asc | desc )
| First date | Word | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| 1981 | Jedi mind trick n. (1981) | in the fictional universe of the Star Wars franchise: a telepathic technique of psychological manipulation used by the Jedi |
| 1981 | jump engine n. (1981) | = jump drive n. |
| 1981 | SF/F n. (1981) | science fiction and fantasy, regarded as a single broad genre |
| 1981 | skin job n. 2 (1981) | a robot that has skin; (spec.) an android that cannot easily be distinguished from a human |
| 1981 | Tuckerized adj. (1981) | (of a fictional character) bearing the name of a real person; (of a real person) appearing as the name of a fictional character |
| 1981 | utopian adj. (1981) | possessing or regarded as having impossibly or extravagantly ideal conditions in respect of politics, customs, social organization, etc. |
| 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 |