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At 7:00 AM EST you managed to 'digg' the link site 'Jessewords' to unresponsiveness. Science fact not fiction, the magic of internet exposure. A linked list is only as strong as the site with the 'least' bandwidth. Links to photos often go from the picture to a notice for the owner to contact billing for exceeding their limits.
obviously, the compiler of this list is not particularly well read:
Hyperspace
Chronosynclastic Infundibulum
Spindizzy
Blaster
Humanx
CoDominium
Cyan (usually as an adj describing blaster fire)
Forerunners
Esper
Starport
To pose just a few.
Hyperspace
Chronosynclastic Infundibulum
Spindizzy
Blaster
Humanx
CoDominium
Cyan (usually as an adj describing blaster fire)
Forerunners
Esper
Starport
To pose just a few.
For the purists...
One thing the author should definitely know: it's spelled "skiffy" (pronounced like the peanut butter). Sci-Fi was a term invented by Forrest J. Ackerman as homage to early SF editor Hugo Gernsback, who was also into radio. It was a variation on "Hi-Fi". Hard-core science fiction enthusiasts tend to dismiss the phrase "sci-fi" as demeaning.
Also, for those that attend the conventions (of which there seem to be waaaaay to many these days), one word (an acronym, actually) conspicuously absent: SMOF (Secret Master of Fandom). There actually is a SMOFcon (held in Boston late last year), which seems to obviate the S part of the word, but what the hey...
One thing the author should definitely know: it's spelled "skiffy" (pronounced like the peanut butter). Sci-Fi was a term invented by Forrest J. Ackerman as homage to early SF editor Hugo Gernsback, who was also into radio. It was a variation on "Hi-Fi". Hard-core science fiction enthusiasts tend to dismiss the phrase "sci-fi" as demeaning.
Also, for those that attend the conventions (of which there seem to be waaaaay to many these days), one word (an acronym, actually) conspicuously absent: SMOF (Secret Master of Fandom). There actually is a SMOFcon (held in Boston late last year), which seems to obviate the S part of the word, but what the hey...
Forgot some more:
TARDIS
dimensionally transcendental
TARDIS
dimensionally transcendental
The Santa Claus Machine sounds a lot like a Schmoo from Li'l Abner.
Look it up.
Look it up.
A few extra, some primary ones - Cyber, Cyborg, Assembler, Hyperspace, Subspace, Hyperdrive, Jump Drive, Warp drive !!, hologram !!!
There are loads of different names just for assemblers- assemblers, nanites, constructors, universal constructors, nanorobots, Von Neumann replicators, magic dust, grey goo - plus ripper bots, nano surgeons, etc.
A few defs upgraded
"Cyborg" - In scifi a cyborg is traditionally a part human part machine construct. In reality it is anything that uses cybernetic feed back - including all humans and all really advanced robots.
"Positronic" - electronics uses electrons, positronics would use protons as well, mostly as gasses or plasmas
"Hyperspace" - contradictory definitions, either the ftl regions of space (inc trad SF or pre80's Relativity), or space with more than 3 dimensions (modern screwy physics lk m-theory)
"Subspace" - at least four or five closely related definitions - the inverse of space, the inverse of hyperspace, regions separated by light cone or Schrodinger box, a sibilant resonant wave in space ie ripples in space time. The Star Trek definition basically follows most of these to.
There are loads of different names just for assemblers- assemblers, nanites, constructors, universal constructors, nanorobots, Von Neumann replicators, magic dust, grey goo - plus ripper bots, nano surgeons, etc.
A few defs upgraded
"Cyborg" - In scifi a cyborg is traditionally a part human part machine construct. In reality it is anything that uses cybernetic feed back - including all humans and all really advanced robots.
"Positronic" - electronics uses electrons, positronics would use protons as well, mostly as gasses or plasmas
"Hyperspace" - contradictory definitions, either the ftl regions of space (inc trad SF or pre80's Relativity), or space with more than 3 dimensions (modern screwy physics lk m-theory)
"Subspace" - at least four or five closely related definitions - the inverse of space, the inverse of hyperspace, regions separated by light cone or Schrodinger box, a sibilant resonant wave in space ie ripples in space time. The Star Trek definition basically follows most of these to.
(because the good SF makes it into the realm of literature...)
robot
Czech playwright Karel ??apek wrote R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) and coined the term from the czech "robit" meaning "work". Productions staged in Prague in 1920 and NYC in 1922. ??apek b. 1890, d.1930.
The plot is pretty scary revolutionary for a time when you had the hot technology if you drove your Model T home to listen to a radio. Robots are created, do work, take over, exterminate humans. There oughta be a law! Oh, there was one 22 years later when Asimov wrote 'I, Robot'.
[info on ??apek & R.U.R. from my 1960s college textbook, 'Contemporary Drama; 9 plays']
Claudia
robot
Czech playwright Karel ??apek wrote R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) and coined the term from the czech "robit" meaning "work". Productions staged in Prague in 1920 and NYC in 1922. ??apek b. 1890, d.1930.
The plot is pretty scary revolutionary for a time when you had the hot technology if you drove your Model T home to listen to a radio. Robots are created, do work, take over, exterminate humans. There oughta be a law! Oh, there was one 22 years later when Asimov wrote 'I, Robot'.
[info on ??apek & R.U.R. from my 1960s college textbook, 'Contemporary Drama; 9 plays']
Claudia
?? -a-p-e-k. First letter didn't work.
It's a C with a caron on top.
Sorry.
It's a C with a caron on top.
Sorry.
How can one even have the the top ten science fiction words (much less the top 75) without slan? But then one must make allowances for those ignorants who use the despised skiffy neologism
and the Dr Who fans rise as one. I suppose technically speaking it's phrase and not a word, but imagine the fun we could have with a "top 75 pseudoscientific concepts" list 
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Deathstar
Dilithium crystals
Transporter (beam me up Scotty!)
Borg
Adamantium (snikt!)
Just some stuff from the top of my head... I bet there's a whole lot more that would qualify!
Dilithium crystals
Transporter (beam me up Scotty!)
Borg
Adamantium (snikt!)
Just some stuff from the top of my head... I bet there's a whole lot more that would qualify!
I've been reading/watching science fiction now for roughly 35 years and I think I know about 39 of these terms.
A few more common ones that do not rely on having read/seen a specific series:
visiplate
screen/shields
escape pod
shape shifter
generation ship
anti-grav
gestalt - Group mind
Most are self explanitory which is more than can be said for the likes of Starwisp or Whuffie.
A few more common ones that do not rely on having read/seen a specific series:
visiplate
screen/shields
escape pod
shape shifter
generation ship
anti-grav
gestalt - Group mind
Most are self explanitory which is more than can be said for the likes of Starwisp or Whuffie.
I'd like to add:
Needlegun, Sonic Attack, Orgone Accumulator, Morphial Effect.
Needlegun, Sonic Attack, Orgone Accumulator, Morphial Effect.
What SciFi does well is its diversity, a SF writer can write anything from crime fiction to fantasy
Offliner is a name suggested by http://www.codemink.com as one of a sci-fi term..
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