rampwalk. Walkway.
raysilk. A synthetic fabric.
ready-squeeze mixes. “Box” mixes for cakes, etc., are considered “good, oldfashioned” cooking.
realiron. Real iron.
realwood. Real wood.
reality perceivers. A.k.a. “realizers.”
realize. Because of the nickname “realizers” for reality perceivers, the verb “to realize” has largely dropped out of use in its earlier sense.
realizers. Reality perceivers.
reciprocal dispensation. An arrangement whereby clergy of the any of the participating denominations may minister to members of all these denominations. For instance, the Catholic, Episcopal, and Anglican denominations have reciprocal dispensation arrangements, though not all the clergy and other members of these denominations choose to take part.
recycliplastic. Recyclable sturdy plastic, used for tickets, etc. Generally, perhaps half the thickness of our credit cards.
Reformed Constitution. Popular name for the Constitution of the R.S.A.
Reformed States of America, the. More officially, the Reformed States of North America, though usually abbreviated RSA. Built on and proudly succeeding the United States of America.
Regional Police. See: police.
-ress. This suffix has largely fallen into disuse, except in “waitress” and “stewardess.” By and large, such words as actor, etc., refer to either gender. Where a unisex version of a word is readily enough available, it has replaced -ress.
restricted names. See: names.
Revived Ancient Mass. Actually, several versions of this liturgy have Vatican approval. The most common is a fairly close copy of the Latin Mass according to missals of the 19th century, but an all-Greek version claimed to be as accurate a reconstruction as possible of First Century A.D. Christian rites has been gaining popularity since the 2050s. The revival and approval of early liturgies and church services in many religions besides Catholic probably owes much more to fancy-class influence than to any other factor.
richblood.
Riots, States of. Since the twentieth century, the world has seen few “wars,” but several “states of riot.”
robosignal.
Rogers, Hopalong Autrey. “The Singing Cowhand.”
rubberine.
rubberplast.
rulebook.
S
Sack of Rome, The. Fairly famous movie; a dark comedy.
salestoolies. Police slang.
Sanjack voiceprint. A type of voice-keyed lock that gives selected persons the “open sesame.”
satisfaction, service. See: service satisfaction.
Scotch coffee. A fairly mild (usually) drink of hot coffee with Scotch whisky or Drambuie. Lestrade’s usual braingrease when “working” (i.e., considering cases while officially off duty).
Schottisch tape. Ilna von Cruewell keeps one type of this tape handy for binding people rapidly.
screen, to. Verb. To communicate with, as by computer network.
screen game. Any game played on or with a computer or other screen.
Scribbler, Atramentacia. Extremely prolific novelist.
scrooge mcduck. An extremely rich person. (Not a restricted name.)
Seafoam shampoo. Gives hair a stylish green tint, especially after the hair has been in chlorine water.
Second Seal, the. A Cunard cargo liner.
semiplast.
Sendak, Holly. Artist and set designer.
service satisfaction. Feeling of accomplishment gained from doing one’s job well, especially in the “service” worklines.
sesame, open. See: open sesame.
Shameless Quarter-Century, the. One tag that later ages apply to the 1970s-1990s.
shines. As noun, parties, shindigs, etc.
shop stops. Another popular name for shopping centers or malls.
showscreen. Name for any kind of electronic or similar screen; e.g., television, cinema screen, etc. Five-meter screens not uncommon.
shuttlecraft tours.
silkrester. A fabric.
Sir. For use in addressing an officer, see under: Mister.
skin sheers. A kind of stocking.
skinfits. Leotards.
slapsole shoes.
slicey. Slang. Tricky.
slotpay.
social-conscience groups. Try to work out social changes for the better.
sodanuts. A snack food.
Solar System Inc.
Soleri, Paolo. 20th-century architect many of whose ideas are still gaining ground. Soleri model cities dot the American continents and other parts of the globe; one of the most famous is the Soleri Model Mushroom City on North America’s East Coast.
sonic planes.
sorbent screen. As, for a fireplace.
Sorensen, Rhett. One of the serendipitous developers of the codex reader, about the turn of the century (20th to 21st).
sound-soak. Term for a variety of sound-absorbing or soundproofing materials; as, sound-soak plastiwood. Sometimes seen without the hyphen.
space-alloy. A metal perfected for use in space vehicles.
Space Venture, the. Popular blanket term for the exploration and colonization of “outer space,” from Earth’s moon, to the Asteroid Belt, and anywhere beyond.
spacethread. Developed for use in the Space Venture, but often used to reinforce earthside tape.
speed limit. Maximum on the open road: 60 kils (60 kilometers per hour). Maximum within city limits: 25 kils, 35 kils for polcars at semi. People still sometimes talk about the “old” 90 kils limit. There are, however, coin-op speedways with higher limits or no limits.
spontaneous pain producer. A fancier who perceives pain in situations most people find painless—e.g., 21st-century dentistry.
spraydust. Cosmetic powder (as, after-toweling talc, powdered perfume, etc.) sprayed on. Wall nozzles can be installed in bathrooms and dressing rooms for the purpose of applying spraydust.
squoozadelic. Ultra-hallucinatory, lurid, crazily vivid. As, a squoozadelic nightmare.
standard. Standard reality is reality as perceived by realizers. As noun, the Standard is one of the most important government officials: a sort of human meterstick whose perceptions are judged so consistent with the world as it actually is, as to form the highest guideline for Testing the perceptions of everyone else.
standard education. See: education.
standard (perceptional) test. The word “test” (noun or verb) when used by itself is very often capitalized, though occasionally lower-cased. “When were you last Tested?” “Have you taken the Test recently?” “I scored such-and-such on the Test” or “I Tested such-and-such,” etc.
state of riot. See: riots.
steelglass.
steelplas.
stiff stuff, the. Expression used by E. Goodwrench.
Stressaway tablets. Probably a brand name in process of becoming a common noun.
stress-hours. Certain jobs—e.g., police work—are timed in stress-hours rather than in clock hours.
stunpen.
suffrage, universal adjusted. See: universal adjusted suffrage.
Suyo, Toka. Noted pianist.
swish injectors. See: medical swish injectors.
Swisstrans. A transportation corporation.
T
tab, to. Multi-purpose verb: people tab computer keyboards, phonecodes, calculators, control buttons (or “tabs”) of all kinds. To tab at: to work away at something; to annoy somebody, etc.
tapebox. A portable device with alleged lie detection bobber, used by police.
taxyists.
telephone. See: phone.
Telmark-Howells system, the
tempstands.
terrypaper. Paper textured much lik
e terrycloth.
textchip. A tiny data unit for use in compatible codex readers and other kinds of small computers.
thermplate urn. Used to keep coffee, etc., hot.
thinksafe. Noun.
tippet. Slang. A snip, a bratty youngster.
tobacco. Denatured tobacco, or “weed,” has a faint cinnamon aroma.
topsocks.
Toka Suyo. See: Suyo, Toka.
trampole, to. To jump as on a trampoline
transport. The word “transportation” is often shortened to “transport.”
3M Meteor Mining. A company engaged in mining the asteroids for minerals.
Tribunal of Illegal Substances. Funds itself primarily on penal fines.
tridol. The standard unit of currency, considered the equivalent of three of our dollars, though inflation and deflation makes such equivalencies of questionable use.
Trimex watch wristphones.
trollies. As in “to have trollies.” Slang growing out of addicts’ “bad trips” and “D.T.’s.” When used by children, often simply means to be very upset or excited.
troll-y. With or without the hyphen. Wacky, crazy, etc.
U
universal adjusted suffrage. Sometimes capitalized. The system practiced in the Reformed States of America: every individual sixteen years and older is guaranteed one vote. Individuals who wish can, by passing certain tests or otherwise demonstrating serious interest in and knowledge of politics, national and world affairs, etc. earn the right to a double or even a triple vote. (In certain referendum questions, however, usually of a local nature, this privilege is canceled and every individual gets a single vote, the theory being that such matters as local night illumination guidelines, pest control, mechanics of water supply, etc., affect everyone equally. In such referendums the voting age is occasionally lowered to fourteen.)
Universal Council of Churches. Distinct from the World Council of Churches. Originally one, the two organizations split in 2061 and now keep up some measure of disputatiousness, usually friendly and tolerant, but occasionally acrimonious.
Universal Council of Churches Guideline Graph. A tool for gauging society’s moral tone, a “morality-orientation scale.” Exists in Standard Reality Version and Fantasy Perception Adjustment Version, the latter based (or biased) on the idea that fanciers in general have looser morals than do realizers.
university overview course. See: overview course.
V
vellopac. Also called “vello.” A cellophane-like packet for nuts, etc.
Verdmont. Composer. One work is opera The Fall of Pisa.
vision-pills. Term used for hallucinogens of old drug cultures.
voicekey. Locks set to individuals’ voices for unlocking voicelocks.
voiceprint.
W
wall screens. Often used to cover windowalls when additional privacy or darkness is desired.
Wang Dow. A famous gourmand, one of the original popularizers of iguanice soup.
waveline. As, “Smith’s wristphone clicked into Brown’s waveline.”
Wealth Index Scale. See: Heimdigger Wealth Index Scale.
weed. Slang for tobacco, etc.
werefanciers, wererealizers. People who become fanciers or realizers only at night. A very rare condition, both forms combined affect less than one percent of all fanciers, fewer people than the combined total of doppelganger perceivers.
wham-trollies. Slang for a bad trip on the drug whammy.
whammy. A peculiarly obnoxious illegal substance.
whammy parties. These are often recruiting ploys for dealers.
White and Harris, Numberwig, Nielsen Families Inc., Social Polygraph Associates. Their studies are cited as respectable documentation.
Wildemeyer. A poet whose work might be compared to that of A. E. Housman.
windowall. A picture window large enough to serve as a wall or substantial part thereof. Usually made of steelglass. Very, very occasionally still written with a hyphen: window-wall.
working-class. With hyphen, adjective.
workline. Occupation, career, profession, etc.
World League of Churches. Certifies clerics of member denominations to give limited counseling and ministration to all liberal Christians ,Jews, and others to the extent of their own needs and wishes. (See also: reciprocal dispensation. Reciprocal dispensation, however, need not go through the World League, but only through the participating denominations.)
wraparound illumination. Room lighting that emanates from all the walls equally, sometimes also from floor and ceiling.
wristband chip music player.
wristphone.
X
xerox memory, a. A photographic (or eidetic) memory. (Apologies to Xerox for guessing that such words will no longer be commonly capitalized by the late 21st century.)
Y
yin and yang. These terms are sometimes used figuratively, like “obverse” and “reverse,” simply to tag two sides, not necessarily opposites, of anything.
Z
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CHRONOLOGY
(This would have been expanded as I combed further through my stories.)
1970s to 1990s. Sometimes called by people of later eras the Shameless Quarter-Century.
End of the twentieth century: The Great Tax Cut Rebellion.
Turn of 20th to 21st century: The Decade of Reform. Actually about a dozen years, this resulted in the Reformed Constitution which, among other things, eliminated the Income Tax, the Property Tax, and most other forms of taxation; recognized fantasy perception as a valid alternate lifestyle and state of mind, not automatically marking the fantasy perceiver as insane; and laid out a system of procreational permits to replace civil marriage and help control population. (2016 N.B. I was not making a political statement here, but merely practicing the speculative-fiction writer’s “What If” tool.)
Also about this time: Ontano, Sorensen, and Great Books Publ. race to develop the codex reader.
1999: Privcom Rule
2010: Port Said Riots
2017: controlled substances “decriminalized” for fanciers
2019: Second Amendment to the Reformed Constitution lays out guideline rules for new system of personal nomenclature.
2020s: A wild decade. Contraceptives and abortives readily available in streetcorner vending machines, at least according to later popular belief.
2029: The Great Christmas Quake destroys much of southern California.
2036: Arrest and conviction of “mad Dr. Macumber.”
2045: The Last War Crimes Trial, Nuremburg. A Toronto doctor, Parisian professor, Kansas plumber, two South American schoolteachers, German housepainter, and German musician were sentenced to death, the first two for being children and the others for being grandchildren of known Nazis, under the scriptural “punishing children to the third and fourth generation for their fathers’ wickedness” clause. (Cf. Numbers, 14:18, etc.) Before sentence could be carried out, the World Court declared free pardon and amnesty to all twentieth-century Nazis and their descendants, annulled the Nuremburg proceedings, and freed all seven defendants on grounds that no religious texts could be used in secular courts of law, and in religious tribunals only when all parties involved declared beforehand their acceptance of such authority. This roused further controversy, as many Jewish and Christian religionists who had favored pardon and amnesty for Nazi descendants felt that the World Court ought to have cited some such Biblical authority as Deuteronomy 24:16 for its ruling.
2050 (ca.) - : The latter half of the 21st century likes to call itself, not utterly without reason, the “Age of Morality.”
2061: The Universal Council of Churches splits away from the World Council of Churches.
2063: First “security hotel” opened for homicidal but
wealthy fanciers. By transferring to it from a more traditional penitentiary, Dr. Macumber kicks up a controversy that leads eventually to realizers being allowed incarceration in such facilities.
2076: NTC launches its airship the Hindenburg II.
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