Cineastique, Hart. Film director. Among his screenshows: “The Sack of Rome” (a decadent comedy).
chip. A legal coin substitute for use in certain automatic dispensers. Also, one form in which recordings come.
chipwork. As, with or for computers.
Churches, World League of. See: World League of Churches.
cinerary toilets. Incinerate the wastes in a matter of seconds.
Clarke, Dr. Asimov. Noted science and speculative author.
clippersole shoes.
clock it, to. To clock it with the minimum (or maximum) number of hours (i.e. stress-hours) is police slang for solving a case, or before shelving it unsolved. (For a homicide case, the minimum officially funded number of stress-hours is 80; the maximum is six months’ worth at five days a week, six stress-hours a day.)
clockround. Around the clock; all the time. Sometimes, “clockaround.”
clumped up. Slang. To be clumped up on a thing is to be very concerned with it, whether pro, con or undecided.
‘code, code. May stand for phonecode.
codex readers. A reading device in the form of a codex book, with thin, flexible screens virtually indistinguishable from paper pages. When a textchip is inserted, the codex reader can be handled and read exactly like a printed volume. Proto-versions were developed by Shandra Ontano, Rhett Sorensen, and the Great Books Publishing Group, competing at about the time of the Great Reformation.
coin-op speedways.
coldsox, to look like. Slang. To look terrible.
college. This word has come to apply to high schools and even elementary schools and kindergartens, as “Middle College,” “bud colleges.”
Columbo. One of the restricted final names for professional detectives.
comfort station. A rest room.
Common Era. See: C.E.
computer, accommodations. See: accommodations computer.
computerlines.
comscreen. Also called compscreen. A computer screen.
Control. A type of central authority. As, Police Control.
controlled substances. In 2017, most such substances were “decriminalized” for fantasy perceivers on grounds that a fancier might perceive some perfectly harmless substance to be cocaine, hashish, etc. The legal responsibility and accountability for peddling such controlled substances rests entirely upon reality perceivers.
Coorsback beer. Dave Click’s usual braingrease.
cop, to. To get, obtain, succeed in: as, to cop a patent.
copyright, corporate undated. See: corporate undated copyright.
corporate undated copyright. Often used for “secret” and semi-secret in-house reports.
corporations. Huge multi-national corporations have become at least as important as small national governments.
cracknew. Slang for very new, the newest possible.
crawlswing. A style of modern music, played by, for instance, The Lightyears.
crystalline. Crystalline glass may also be steelglass, but not all steelglass is crystalline, and vice versa.
crystalplast. An imitation crystal of superior quality. Used, for instance, in lightweight cut crystalplast goblets.
Cunard. A ship company operating under this name and claiming descent from the original Cunard line is still in business. Among its vessels is the cargo liner Second Seal.
Cygnus. NTC airship loosely modeled on the Graf Zeppelin.
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Daedalus and Dvorchac. Designers of NTC airship Palace of the Skies.
Daedalus chute. A type of chute, designed by Daedalus for use in airships, which can be converted from a stepladder to a slide at the tab of a button.
dazzledust. Semi-slang. Almost any type of hallucinogen or similar controlled substance that comes in dry or powdery form.
Decade of Reform, the. About a dozen years at the turn of the century (20th to 21st), during which the Founding Reformers made their basic contribution.
denjeans. Denim bluejeans. By extension, old or casual clothes.
denatured tobacco. See tobacco.
Disneylands, the Old. The venerable original California Disneyland and Florida Walt Disney World.
dispensation, reciprocal. See: reciprocal dispensation.
“dol.” Shortslang for “dollar.” An “old dol(lar)”—one third of a tridol(lar)—is about equivalent in buying power to the quarter of the mid-20th century.
doppelganger perceivers. A minority of fanciers who, for various perceptional reasons, have difficulty recognizing other individuals. One type of doppelganger perceiver, for instance, recognizes a name and sees anyone who gives it as the individual in question; by exchanging their names, friends can easily play identity jokes on this type of “doppler.” Another type, if convinced that X is absent or deceased, perceives X as somebody else, even as a stranger.
doppler. Short for doppelganger perceiver.
double-fantasy worlds. The personal worlds of fanciers living in fantastic (e.g., fairy-tale, magical fantasy, or otherwise strictly and uncompromisingly fictional—as opposed to historical) settings.
Dozoff. Brand name. Sleeping caplets guaranteed nonreactive with any other substance.
droidnik.
droids.
dryfish. Slang. A person not hooked on drugs or alcohol.
Dungeon Chess. Any of a wide variety of role-playing games descended from “Dungeons and Dragons” type games of the late 20th century. Some purists insist that true “Dungeon Chess” should have a “sword and sorcery” or a Tolkeinian scenario, but most people talk about any role-playing game as “dungeon chess.” One accepted practice is to capitalize the words when they refer to a true “heroic fantasy” species of the game and lower-case them when they refer to role-playing in any other scenario—e.g., American Revolution or Alice’s Wonderland. While many ardent players prefer to get together in more or less formalized situations complete with props and other apparatus, most fanciers and many realizers can play some type of dungeon chess anywhere, with no other equipment than their imaginations; it is a popular game in airports, aboard trains and buses, even sometimes in long lines at stores. Some schools offer classes in dungeon chess. (N.B. of 2016: In eliminating the element of fantasy perception from the re-imagined R.S.A. world, I strengthened that of role-game playing still more, as readers of All But a Pleasure and Sundays at Sam’s will be aware; but they no longer call it “dungeon chess.”)
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Eckener, Wolfgang Z. The “Old Man of the Clouds.” First dirigible commander of the 21st century.
education. In a standard education, children are mixed together regardless of incipient fantasy- or reality-perception tendencies from kindergarten (“bud college”) through the elementary grades (often called “middle college” by the last three decades of the 21st century). Junior realizers and young fancytends are then channeled apart sometime between ninth grade and the university frosh level, when as a general thing (there are exceptions) young realizers concentrate on practical, technical, and scientific subjects, young fanciers on arts and humanities.
electro screens.
electroglo(w). A glow electrically produced to simulate such nonelectric glows as that of firelight.
em. As verb, to address anyone with the title “M.”
Emmy-winning.
Empire State Building. Still a famous New York landmark.
Esoteric Psychomystiques. A periodical.
ethnic purebloods. Strictly speaking, persons with unmixed or virtually unmixed ancestry in any ethnic group or racial stock. Less strictly, applied to anyone who seems to show the recognized dominant “racial characteristics” of such a group. With inter-breeding becoming more and more common, ethnic purebloods are coming to be valued, even actively sought by recruiters in such worklines as the entertaining arts, transportation services, unive
rsity chairs in certain studies directly related to the person’s ethnic heritage, etc.
Evandi. Artist, known for oil paintings.
Everymind, Al. Prolific popular writer on anything and everything.
exotic-frame fanciers.
eyeline. When you spot something you’re looking at, you have an eyeline on it.
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fac’. Factory.
Fall of Pisa, The. Opera by Verdmont.
fallgood. A showily virtuous person whose sincerity the speaker questions.
family name. See: names.
fanciers. Fantasy perceivers.
“fanciers for a holiday.” Phrase coined or popularized by Al Everymind for realizers copying what they understand of the fancy-class lifestyle for brief intervals.
Fancy Class, the; fancy-class. As noun, not always capitalized. As adjective, hyphenated.
fancytend. Adjective and noun for a young person who looks likely to turn out a fancier.
fantasy perceivers. Also called “fanciers.”
fantasy-perceiving. Adjective, with hyphen.
fantasy perception. An important minority of the population is sufficiently affected by this condition to be legally required to register as fantasy perceivers. A fantasy perceiver “lives in” his or her own personal world; for instance, one whose personal world is ancient Rome sees and feels clothing as tunics and togas; sees, feels, and tastes foods according to ancient Roman menus; experiences writing implements as wax tablets and styluses or other ancient materials; and so on. Such a condition is no longer, in and of itself, considered insanity or grounds to institutionalize the individual. Fancytend children develop their worlds at random subconscious or with conscious-preference programming, according to what can be researched or imagined. Even after the personal worlds have hardened with adulthood, most fanciers continue to see printed materials, including computer printouts, with the text as written and the pictures as reproduced, even if they perceive the paper as parchment, etc. Usually, also, their sense of hearing remains unaffected, except perhaps for how they hear certain music, or the pitches and timbres of voices. Almost all fanciers are fully aware that how they experience the world is not how reality-perceivers experience it. Fanciers devote a good deal of conversational small talk to comparing personal worlds. Reality perceivers look at once down and up at fanciers, admiring their imagination and flair for living, but scorning their lack of practicality and the loose morals which certain fanciers indulge, giving the class as a whole a reputation for moral laxity (which many or even most fanciers don’t deserve). The generally high social standing fanciers enjoy springs at least in part from the frequency with which fanciers come from very wealthy families; a generation or two ago, fanciers could almost be assumed to be rich—this is actually changing, as family fortunes erode, but the reputation remains. Reality perceivers often play, when on vacation, at being fanciers, donning simple, mildly accessorized clothing in imitation of fantasy perceivers. The Fancy Class has served as a major leavening influence on society in general, heightening general awareness of history and literature, and helping to preserve many things—e.g., round clock faces, the continued use of older measuring systems side by side with metric, mathematical computations with pen, pencil, and slide rule—that might otherwise have been lost in a high-tech computer age.
Farnon. One of the restricted final names for veterinarians.
final names. See: names.
final names, restricted. See: names.
fireflies. Fire-fighters, members of the Fire Department.
fireplaces, holographic. Can be fitted with adjustable electroglow and woodsmoke scent.
First International Bank of Trade and Commerce.
first name. See: names.
five-meter screen. See: showscreen.
flash beam. The light thrown by a flashlight.
floater. Fellow, guy, etc., either gender. (2016 N.B. This term seemed to me such a natural development of universal slang, and so self-explanatory in context, that I was amazed at the amount of puzzled feedback I got on it from readers. I believe my use of it antedates the etymological explanation I provided in Something Shady at Sunvale Clinic, and its use remains in the re-imagined version of the R.S.A., along with the idea that the ’20s of the century were wild and lawless, although the reasons behind both phenomena differ in the different versions.)
Founding Reformers, the. The women and men who fashioned the United States of America into the Reformed States of America during the Decade of Reform. (2016 N.B.: this was a political and legislative rather than a moral reform. That the morals of the late 21st century R.S.A. are rather more puritanical than those of the late 20th-early 21st century U.S.A. was a swing of the social pendulum only tangentially, if at all, related to the Great Political Reform. I never meant the R.S.A. to be any sort of political-cartoon statement, but, the first time around, merely a milieu in which my fantasy-perceivers could function and interact socially; and, the second, fancier-free time around, a sort of “wouldn’t it be nice” place of comparative social and ecological enlightenment, where I wouldn’t mind living myself.)
fumehead. A drunkard, drug addict, person who enjoys being intoxicated, etc.
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Gabinny. An artist (painter) known for a kind of surrealism.
gender. Politely used in almost all contexts where today we use “sex” to connote male or female.
General Millimo Corporation.
give-message chime. Used with a mikebox.
glassine.
glitchy. Adjective. Whacky, screwy, inconvenient, etc.
gofor. A “gofor” (term traceable to late 20th century) is an all-round errand runner and quick odd-jobs person.
gol knows. Slang. Popular expression with children.
goldtone. As in goldtone wall screens, goldtone jewelry, etc.
Goodyear Blimp, the. One, at least, is still around from the 20th century.
Gospel According to Disney, the. Officially titled “The Story of Jesus,” this full-length animated feature film begins with a traditional, if brief, Nativity sequence, highlighting the Virgin Mary’s visit to John the Baptist’s mother, Elizabeth. The plot then focuses on the love story of John the Baptist and Mary Magdalene, nicknamed “Maggie,” who is a Cinderella-like figure living with her kid brother, Little Lazarus, and their wicked stepsister Martha. Assisted by his comic animal sidekicks, Larry Locust, Honey Wilde Bee, and Joshua Donkey, John escapes from Herod’s prison in a thrilling jailbreak episode. Herod, Pontius Pilate, and the high priest Caiaphas are Satan, Lucifer, and Beelzebub in disguise. Old Annas, Caiaphas’ bumbling father-in-law, tumbles to their diabolic plot and manages to get the Golden Trumpet from its place in the Temple. In a chase sequence building to the climax, Annas passes the Trumpet, like a football, to Judas Iscariot, who has also Seen the Light. Judas blows the Trumpet, summoning the Heavenly Host, also called the Angelic Cavalry, just in time to rescue Jesus from the cross and drive the three chief devils back to Hell in a no-holds-barred climax justly called the most spectacular animated artwork ever. Jesus blesses the marriage of John and Maggie, who settle down to a happily-ever-after in Herod’s cleansed palace. Jesus ascends to Heaven, accompanied by music strongly reminiscent of Handel’s Messiah Chorus; and the film ends with Larry Locust, Honey Wilde Bee, and Joshua Donkey enjoying John and Maggie’s wedding feast. Released in December 1999, the last major Walt Disney Productions feature of the 20th century was banned in Norway but hailed everywhere else by critics, movie lovers, and church people alike as a triumph of animated cinematography and religious storytelling, a wholesome counteractive to such anti-religious pieces as “Jesus Christ, Superstar” and “The Last Temptation of Christ,” and the perfect note of hope for the new millennium. It naturally broke all box-office records. (2016 N.B. I originally wrote this as the reaction of a lover of Hans Christian Andersen’s story “
The Little Mermaid” to the Disney adaptation of same. One correspondent at the time actually mistook it as my attack on the Bible and Christian religion.)
Great Books Publishing Group, the. Competed with Shandra Ontano and Rhett Sorensen in developing the codex reader. This venerable company is still publishing in the 2080s.
Great Reform, the. Followed the Great Tax Cut Rebellion, and remodeled the old U.S.A. into the R.S.(N.)A. See: Chronology.
Great Trap, the. 21st-century name for the area popularly called the “Bermuda Triangle” in the latter half of the 20th century.
grunchtalk. As verb, to badmouth, to speak ill of anyone or anything.
guardrim.
guidelines. A very popular substitute word for “laws,” “rules,” “regulations,” etc. Sometimes “guiderules” is used to connote forceful guidelines, but “guidelines” is the more or less official term.
Gulliver, Lemuel. There is a theory that Gulliver should be classed with Don Quixote and Baron Munchausen as one of the great proto-fanciers of world literature.
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Hazard, Jamie. With his sidekick Yuri Yokamo, popular characters in current juvenile literature and screenshows. Some of their most notable adventures are set during the Port Said Riots of 2010.
Heimdigger Wealth Index Scale. A tool for social classification of personal and family resources. Its Leisure Income Adjustment Version draws certain parallels between layers of the wealthy and the working classes; e.g., defining a “middle class” of rich fantasy perceivers in terms similar to those describing the “middle class” of working reality perceivers.
hencher. A henchman, henchwoman.
Herriot. A restricted final name for veterinarians. Hence, when used as a noun and lower-cased, an exceptionally good veterinarian.
Hezerbody. (2016 N.B. Here is an example of how never-completed this glossary is. I discovered a cross-reference here from Nightmare Alternate Histories, Hezerbody’s, but no “Hezerbody,” until I put it in new just now. Hezerbody must have been a writer of rather macabre literature.)
history packer. A history buff or enthusiast.
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