By
Jay Garmon
We started with 75 words every sci-fi fan should know, added another 25 shortly thereafter (plus 10 sci-fi curse words), and now we've got another 30 examples of spec-fic slang. Still, we're less than half way to our goal of 366, so we can celebrate a fresh geek term everyday (including leap years). Check out what we've got, and start piling on, fellow bibliovores.
We started with 75 words every sci-fi fan should know, added another 25 shortly thereafter (plus 10 sci-fi curse words), and now we've got another 30 examples of spec-fic slang. Still, we're less than half way to our goal of 366, so we can celebrate a fresh geek term everyday (including leap years). Check out what we've got, and start piling on, fellow bibliovores.
- Alcubierre drive (n.)
- anthropic priniciple (n.)
- Big Crunch (n.)
- biopunk (adj.)
- butterfly effect (n.)
- causality (n.)
- clockpunk (adj.)
- Dying Earth (adj.)
- elfpunk (adj.)
- frankenfood (n.)
- goldilocks planet (n.)
- lycanthropy (n.)
- manga (n.)
- mannerpunk (adj.)
- Maxwell's demon (n.)
- mythpunk (adj.)
- otaku (n.)
- planetary romance (n.)
- psychometry (n.)
- pyrokinesis (n.)
- redshirt (n.)
- retrofuturism (n.)
- science fantasy (n.)
- smart dust (n.)
- spime (n.)
- splatterpunk (adj.)
- spy-fi (adj.)
- subspace (n.)
- transgenic (adj.)
- vorpal (adj.)
