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Birth of Alien to Human
The birth of an alien individual to a human woman.
(From Freedom of the Race [1953] by Anne McCaffrey)
Extee
An uncommon abbreviation for "extraterrestrial"
(From Mother [1953] by Philip Jose Farmer)
Human Head Transplant
Putting a human head on a new body, surgically.
(From Professor Dowell's Head [1925] by Alexander Belaev)
Robot Farm
A farm staffed and run entirely by robots.
(From Let Freedom Ring [1950] by Fritz Leiber)
Personality For Robots
Making each robot distinctive.
(From Reunion on Ganymede [1938] by Clifford Simak)
Oblong
A smartphone.
(From Klara and the Sun [2021] by Kazuo Ishiguro)
Fishcam
Seeing through the eyes of a robotic fish.
(From Slow Life [2002] by Michael Swanwick)
Machine Birds
Flock of mechanical winged birds.
(From Klara and the Sun [2021] by Kazuo Ishiguro)
Dingbat
An alien mechanical parasite.
(From Deadly Host [1945] by Raymond F. Jones)
Replacement of Brain with Computer
Removal of the brain of an ordinary man, and installation of a calculating machine.
(From The Ableist Man in the World [1879] by Edward Page Mitchell)
Prowlie
A police vehicle.
(From Stand on Zanzibar [1968] by John Brunner)
End of Cars
Humanity finally sees sense and gets rid of personal cars.
(From Stand on Zanzibar [1968] by John Brunner)
Stinger
A biological assassin.
(From The Hanging Stranger [1953] by Philip K. Dick)
Robot Hands
Human-like appendages for the ends of upper limbs.
(From The Iron World [1937] by Otis Adelbert Kline)
Solar Glass
See-through solar panels.
(From Efficiency [2022] by Paolo Bacigalupi)
Large Utility Calibrated Yield (LUCY)
Storage of solar and wind power as potential energy.
(From Efficiency [2022] by Paolo Bacigalupi)
Astrophage
Literally, "star-eating" organism.
(From Project Hail Mary [2021] by Andy Weir)
Space Meteorologist
A person who studies storms in space.
(From The Storm [1943] by A.E. van Vogt)
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