New Entries (since site relaunch)
| Date added | Word | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-11-03 | impossible story n. (1913) | esp. in the early pulp era: a work of imaginative fiction; a different story n. |
| 2020-11-02 | space force n. (1932) | a branch of the military that acts in outer space |
| 2020-11-02 | starway n. (1932) | an established route between stars; usu. pl. starways the realm of space travel in general; cf. spaceway n. |
| 2020-11-02 | pod person n. (1956) | an alien, a monster; a person considered to be conformist, unoriginal, or emotionless; one who lacks personality or individuality |
| 2020-11-01 | system-wide adj. (1935) | extending or existing throughout or across a solar system |
| 2020-11-01 | seetee n. (1942) | = contraterrene matter |
| 2020-10-29 | sapience n. (1962) | (of non-humans) intelligence |
| 2020-10-25 | inner space n. (1920) | the human mind; the innermost parts of oneβs psyche |
| 2020-10-22 | flame gun n. (1934) | a gun (esp. a handgun) that shoots flames; cf. earlier flame pistol n. |
| 2020-10-22 | tight-beamed adj. (1951) | of a message: sent by means of a tight-beam n. |
| 2020-10-22 | tight-beam v. (1959) | to send (esp. a message) by means of a tight-beam n.; to send to (someone) by means of a tight-beam n.; also intrans. |
| 2020-10-20 | time viewer n. (1940) | = chronoscope n. |
| 2020-10-20 | time storm n. (1942) | a disturbance in time that can bring people and things from different times into the same timeline; cf. timequake n., time-slip n. |
| 2020-10-20 | time-slip n. (1941) | a rift or flaw in the fabric of time that allows travel between two or more periods of time or timelines; any accidental or unexplained movement between periods of time; cf. timequake n., time storm n. |
| 2020-10-20 | time-path n. (1934) | = timestream n. |
| 2020-10-20 | time cop n. (1953) | a member of the time police n. |
| 2020-10-20 | Terran n. 2 (1944) | a common language spoken on Earth or by Earthlings |
| 2020-10-20 | temporal paradox n. (1954) | = time paradox n. |
| 2020-10-20 | uptime adj. (1972) | esp. in time-travel contexts: in or from the future; cf. downtime adj. |
| 2020-10-20 | uptime adv. (1972) | esp. in time-travel contexts: in, into, or toward the future; cf. downtime adv. |
| 2020-10-19 | unhuman n. (1944) | an intelligent nonhuman entity; alien n.; cf. non-human n. |
| 2020-10-19 | unperson n. (1949) | a person who, usually for political reasons, is deemed not to have existed and whose name is removed from all public records; hence, more generally: a person whose contributions or achievements are officially denied or disregarded; a person regarded as less than human |
| 2020-10-19 | ultradrive n. (1949) | a type of faster-than-light star drive |
| 2020-10-18 | xeno- prefix (1962) | (used to form words indicating that the base element is or relates to an alien) |
| 2020-10-17 | X-Phile n. (1994) | a fan of the TV show The X-Files |
| 2020-10-16 | Anglofan n. (1941) | a science fiction fan who is a native or resident of the United Kingdom |
| 2020-10-16 | pseudo-grav n. (1952) | = artificial gravity n.; cf. pseudogravity n. |
| 2020-10-15 | darkside n. 1 (1939) | the side of an object in space (as a spaceship, or a moon or planet) that faces away from the closest star; cf. farside n., nightside n. |
| 2020-10-15 | spacing n. 1 (1942) | the act of travelling in space; (also) the profession of working in space |
| 2020-10-13 | telempath n. (1960) | a person who has the psionic ability to sense othersβ emotions |
| 2020-10-13 | telempathy n. (1952) | the psionic ability to sense othersβ emotions |
| 2020-10-13 | telempathic adj. (1958) | of or by means of telempathy n. |
| 2020-10-13 | super-scientist n. (1928) | a person who studies, or creates inventions using, superscience n. |
| 2020-10-13 | dystopia n. 1 (1952) | a work set in a dystopia n. 2 |
| 2020-10-12 | ecotopia n. (1975) | a place, society, or condition thought to resemble Ecotopia; a place or state which is utopian from an ecological perspective |
| 2020-10-08 | home system n. (1930) | the solar system in which an individual being is from; the solar system in which a species originated |
| 2020-10-08 | home galaxy n. (1936) | the galaxy that an individual being is from; the galaxy in which a species originated |
| 2020-10-07 | groundside adv. (1951) | = planetside adv. |
| 2020-10-01 | intersystem adj. (1941) | (esp. of transportation or communication) occurring between solar systems |
| 2020-09-21 | grav n. 2 (1939) | an earth-standard acceleration; gee n. 2 |
| 2020-09-21 | beam weapon n. (1936) | a weapon that fires a destructive beam of energy |
| 2020-09-18 | space bronzed adj. (1940) | = space-tanned adj. |
| 2020-09-17 | visor screen n. (1931) | = viewscreen n. |
| 2020-09-17 | gravitics n. 2 (1982) | any of various devices or systems making use of gravity or gravitational waves, as (a) sensors that use gravitational waves to detect objects in space; (b) a system that creates artificial gravity |
| 2020-09-16 | adult fantasy n. (1932) | fantasy intended for adults rather than children |
| 2020-09-03 | midspace adj. (1931) | occurring in midspace n. |
| 2020-09-03 | midspace n. (1900) | outer space, viewed as an area in its own right |
| 2020-08-31 | probability world n. (1943) | an alternate universe, viewed as one of many such which have differing probabilities of existing |
| 2020-08-26 | light n. 2 (1961) | a light year |
| 2020-08-26 | light n. 1 (1934) | = lightspeed, used as a unit of measure; cf. light-speed n. 2 |