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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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