WORDS YOU MUST KNOW FOR SCI-FI

[The Muse]

I found a good list of Sci-Fi terms you may want to know and use if you are working on a Science ficition novel:
Alderson disk (n.)
arcology (n.)
areography (n.)
astrogate (v.)
avatar (n.)
Bernal sphere (n.)
chrononaut (n.)
Clarke ring (n.)
Clarke’s First Law (n.)
Clarke’s Second Law (n.)
Clarke’s Third Law (n.)
computronium (n.)
contraterrene (adj.)
Dyson sphere (n.)
elsewhen (adv.)
esper (n.)
Faraday cage (n.)
FTL (adj.)
geas (n.)
grey goo (n.)
grok (v.)
Jovian (adj.)
kiloyear (n.)
light cone (n.)
light sail (n.)
light-second (n.)
Lofstrom loop (n.)
mass-driver (n.)
Matrioshka brain (n.)
meatspace (n.)
megastructure (n.)
megayear (n.)
mindfood (n.)
nanotech (adj.)
needler (n.)
neutronium (n.)
Niven ring (n.)
O’Neill cylinder (n.)
parking orbit (n.)
precog (n.)
pocket universe (n.)
positronic (adj.)
posthuman (n.)
psi (n.)
psychohistory (n.)
quine (n.)
ramscoop (n.)
replicant (n.)
rimworld (n.)
ringwall (n.)
Santa Claus machine (n.)
sapient (n.)
sentience (n.)
Shkadov thruster (n.)
Singularity (n.)
skyhook (n.)
sophont (n.)
space elevator (n.)
space fountain (n.)
Stanford torus (n.)
starwisp (n.)
stellar engine (n.)
superluminal (adj.)
TANSTAAFL (n.)
Tellurian (n.)
terraform (v.)
topopolis (n.)
transhuman (n.)
universal constructor (n.)
uplift (n.)
Von Neumann probe (n.)
waldo (n.)
wetware (n.)
Whuffie (n.)
xenology (n.)

I came across this fabulous list on the following site: www.techrepublic.com/blog/geekend/75-words-every-sci-fi-fan-should-know/1093

If you go to the site and click on any of the 75 words in this list, you will be taken in a new tab to a page that gives you a complete explaination of each word. Very valuable resource indeed!

[justsarah]

This is awesome. Sorry I'll try to limit my requests. Also I might be showing my progress so far in my script.

[The Muse]

justsarah~~its not necessary to limit your requests!

I welcome them as it helps me to expand the options available here on the forum. I cant think of everything, so if someone is looking for a particular topic, image, type of word group or what-have-you, I am VERY glad to oblige.

I hope you will find this list useful, as well as the linked site.

Happy writing!

[The Muse]

I was just thinking...this list would be useful in writing a superhero story as well, since superhero stories are more sci-fi than fantasy....

[justsarah]

I'm curious, has important is Terraform, if you confine yourself specifically to what is scientifically possible at the current time? I'm sort of going for a post modern setting after WWIII.

[The Muse]

Im kinda curious how Whuffie got on that list...it sounds like the noise a dog would make, or a dogs name...