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"The SF approach: an awareness that things could have been different, that this is one of many possible worlds, that if you came to this world from some other planet, this would be a science fiction world."
- Neal Stephenson
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| Illuminum | ||
| A metal that glows with its own light. |
| The walls and ceiling bore an irregular spacing of illuminum tiles whose half-life was clearly almost up, and their feeble radiance had the sole effect of shoveling the gloom into the center of the room. |
| From Altered Carbon,
by Richard Morgan. Published by Del Rey in 2003 Additional resources -
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This is another one of those science fiction words that I like, probably because it has a "classic sf" kind of feel to it, like selectacol or dimensino.
Compare to the wall-lights from Isaac Asimov's 1953 novel Foundation and Empire.
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