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(Alternative words: zettahertz.) Today’s question for Dr. Science is, “What’s the biggest optical telescope in the Empire? How far can it see?” Over the years, a great many different telescopes have held that particular title: from the Great Eye at the Starspike (Eliéra’s oldest observatory, dating to
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(Alternate words: none.) “What’s it like, being a Fusion?” “Our isonomial gnostic net gives us tremendous parallel processing abilities. We can multitask -” “No, sorry, that’s not what I meant. I understand the noetic architecture of mass-minds, in a textbook sense. But what does it feel like to
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(Alternate words: Walk, whitelist, wellspring.) The Dreamhall on Kythera is without a doubt the most… fragrant supercomputing center in the Empire. As much can be said of Kythera as a whole – when you’re heavy biotechnology users, living in buried hives along with an entire commensal symbitech ecosystem, a certain
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(Alternate words: None.) “Okay, now spin the central kitchen island three-quarters. Good. Now back it up half the width of the range.” Minil Cendriane looked around the floor of her house, checking gaps and eyelines revealed by the AR overlay. “No, that still doesn’t clear enough space. Save this
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(Alternate words: Undeath, universal, ugly, ultimate.) “I’m not sure I understand why you’ve come to see me.” “As I said, I’m the undertaker for Cantrel Steamweaver, of Socket City, Golden Groves.” “I have had some dealings with him in the past, but -” “Ah. I see. Perhaps
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(Alternate words: Tear, terms, thinking, tutorial. Actually, I have a pretty good idea for tutorial, but the darn thing just won’t gel. So you get this bit of silliness instead.) The music was pounding again – not that it ever stopped – on the main floor of Polythalience, enough so that
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(Alternate words: Sports, singularity, safety, spectrum.) The world was a blank. An infinite plane stretched out in all directions, hard and smooth, white as polished ivory… only visible in context to the pure, bright, unstained white of the sky. No shadows fell, for vision here was observer-dependent, images radiating from
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(Alternate words: range, relay, racing, and reinvent. In this case, repair was chosen because it was the only word which was submitted independently twice. With special thanks to Jennifer Linsky on G+, whose article post finally let me break a week-long creative block.) Spiders. Why did it have to be
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(Alternate words: none.) The zeppelin’s motors whispered as it drifted slowly away through the dusty butterscotch sky, the setting sun glinting off its outriggers. Lumenna hung just above the horizon, casting long shadows on the ruddy dunes, while Súnáris shone bright near the zenith. And I shivered in the
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(Alternate words: Project and pornography. You may or may not get something for the latter one eventually.) Antíär Steamweaver, Scalar Space Project, Resplendent Exponential Vector, to Daphne Asamis, Polycosmic Chic of Delphys, greeting. Thank you for your enquiry of the 6th, and permit me please to say how gratifying the
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(Alternate words: Opinions. Also Odin, but I can’t do anything with that one because, sorry, wrong universe. I’ll let one of my many hypothetical panting fanfic writers do the crossover with The Mighty Thor…) Local Grid Duty Expediter BAVK-41 was running another satisfactory self-check when the transformer exploded.
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(Alternate words: None. No words, that is, not literally “none”.) normal (n.): 1. conforming to an average (mean), or to a common type (mode); 2. (pej.) mediocre; 3. … Visitors to the Empire and culturally-related regions should take particular note of the second, pejorative meaning of the word “normal”. In a