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- waistpouch: waistpouch, waistpouches
- a small carrying-pouch worn at the waist, on the outside of a coverall or singlesuit.
- walker shak
- a MuTou playing shak that lets the anj cross edges of tessels.
- Wallenstone
- a street in Sobi Zone.
- wallvines: wallvine, wallvines
- the ubiquitous vines growing on the street walls of nearly every understreet. These vines serve to condition the gas mixture and humidity in the air, to provide homes for various insects, insectoids, and small reptilian and mammalian creatures, and to offer flowering and textural ornamentation for the City street walls.
- Wandaji
- Arlen‘s Land Resources Office chief.
- wargreave: wargreave, wargreaves
- lower-leg armor made of lightweight synthetics, often carrying clip-racks of stickweapons.
- warhelm: warhelm, warhelms
- see helm.
- Warr
- a quiet, well-hidden restaurant in the City, frequented by the Argazindari and by many involved in clandestine surveillance activities.
- Warren
- a friend and fellow student of Miriam, on Earth.
- Water Nest
- a trysting place for lovers in Poly Town in the City. Water Nest is a maze of corridors and bedcells behind a grotto formed by a natural watercourse called the Falling Wall. The grotto is paved and finished as a dance floor, where partners perform the great love-dances of Tarnus, the most notable of these dances being the sandrukha.
- watergem: watergem, watergems
- a synthetic jewel with a refractive index that changes with great sensitivity depending on the energy patterns penetrating the jewel’s interior. The effects of this feature are a shimmering, wavy series of distortions and coruscations in many colors.
- watersuit: watersuit, watersuits
- a skinsuit so thin that it looks like little more than a veil of tinted water.
- Weaving a World
- Paths for traversing the Archives.
- weenie: weenie, weenies
- dismissive term for a person, usually an official, who is zealously attempting a task for which he or she has no understanding or preparation. ‘Weenie-stripping’ means taking all of a weenie‘s possessions, including, if necessary, life.
- weird: weird, weirds
- a person, most often a woman, reputed by many coll members to have special healing or anti-healing powers.
- weirlock: weirlock, weirlocks
- a shaman-mage, of particular importance among the Fandarinn. A student of neurotransmitter and neurovirus technology who uses cognitive skills to implant ideas and nerve changes, the weirlock is much feared and respected even among the colls with advanced technological sophistication.
- Welken
- one of Andrew‘s fellow militia trainees.
- Weltschmerz
- n. brand name for a depressant beverage often used by andros, whose central nervous systems overload easily in many different ways.
- Wen Xi
- head of Sinese SVS group working with Gene Hackshaw.
- Wendridgian
- one of the many languages used among the vanished humans of the pre-Colonist era.
- Wenrock
- Ben Wenrock, prison warden at starship assembly site at Oberon.
- werecyclase
- a mood-altering drug that produces a Jekyll-and-Hyde character transformation on a repeated basis. The swings of personality resemble those of bipolar disorder, except that acute paranoia and aggressiveness substitute for elation, and pervasive euphoria and sexual arousal replace depression. Illegal.
- Weredin
- an andro waiter at Engrammatic Inn.
- Werner: Pellnat, Werner, Werner Pellnat
- Werner Pellnat, discoverer of Thorin, later imprisoned.
- Werten
- Jeddin‘s insurgency contact in Naga Zone.
- Werzindar
- Arlen‘s overall security chief. Quintiran, farm security head, works for Werzindar.
- Western Desert
- an expanse of arid sandy land extending west from the route between the City and Transellas for about the width of North America.
- wethead
- a newly-awakened starship passenger.
- wetvac: wetvac, wetvacs
- a small vacuum cleaner using a cycling, filtered water spray.
- weuns
- streetchild language for ‘us’.
- whiteboy: whiteboy, whiteboys
- jesting andro term for an andro with a simulated tan, as if trying to pass for human.
- whiteface
- derogatory term for andro.
- wi
- in Scottish dialect, “with”.
- wid
- streetchild language for ‘with’.
- Widgen
- a small shop on Grize Walk, selling small appliances for home use particularly in the bedroom.
- Willie
- one of Doug‘s fellow prisoners at Oberon.
- Willie O
- prison worker alongside Doug at Oberon starship assembly site
- windwalking
- floating with the wind, undulating.
- Winje
- a nickname for Winjilles Thringe.
- Winjilles Thringe: Thringe, Winjilles Thringe
- street poet and musician in the City, renowned for her powerful and dark lyrics, delivery, and character. One of the most famous of the young street poets of the Fourth Dynasty.
- Wireboy
- a term for a provider of drugs, particularly pyro.
- wirebrain: wirebrain, wirebrains
- derogatory human term for an andro, especially one who speaks in too-literal terms.
- Wisnener
- an insurgency fighter.
- wolfbreed
- gene-enhanced cross between the largest dogs and wild wolves. Any one of these animals understands up to fifty spoken commands, and can carry out a long conditional program of actions. They can rip the belly from any human or andro in a single slashing bite.
- wolven
- a militia term for wolfbreed.
- Woman in Wall
- one of the imprisoned people bound in the stone walls of the City, like Unagrist or Jono.
- Woman Rebel Soldier
- Woodlinrie
- a mountaineering trainer for the City militia.
- Word Wiz
- a prison nickname chosen by Doug Macnee for clandestine communication.
- wordlist: wordlist, wordlists
- a genetic-coded series of true-random values, locked up in a set of cells designed to emit a superlong strand of protein.” The values constituted a key for an enciphered message of any practical length up to that of a large book.
- workfarm: workfarm, workfarms
- government-run farms employing relocated city-dwellers.
- worksuit: worksuit, worksuits
- the normal coverall worn in the City.
- workwall: workwall, workwalls
- one of the street walls near Aswar Tyrae on which job openings for temporary work are posted.
- World: planet, World
- home of this story, its name is Tarnus, third planet of a star much like our sun. It has two moons, Lulith and the Visitor.
- worldline: worldline, worldlines
- here, the trace through higher-dimensional space left by the passage of something through our world of time and space. Ordinarily it refers to the four-dimensional trace of a three-dimensional object through time.
- wormfood
- a curse reflecting the wish for another’s death.
- Woti ngKila
- the second largest gas giant planet in the Zeta Tucanae system, featuring dark rings like those of Uranus.
- Wounded Couple
- man and woman hurt in starship deceleration maneuver after arrival
- Wranmar: Treivan, Wranmar
- Andrew‘s father, Wranmar Luce, of Darko Hejj Coll. Full name: Wranmar Aganas Treivan Luce Hejj Anassi.
- wryhelm: wryhelm, wryhelms
- battle helms made to look especially unusual or ugly in the facial area, with features twisted and distorted in size or made to resemble other organs.
- wryshield: wryshield, wryshields
- personal shields made of light synthetics, capable of deflecting projectiles such as ballistic bullets.
- Wu
- Dr. Wu, Elena‘s coworker in cryosleep research.
- wurchai
- an andro name for a color in the five-octave andro color spectrum. wurchai is in the near ultraviolet range (187-375 nm), and its name refers to a multiple of the human color red-orange. In relation to neighboring colors in a musical scale with red at A, this would be A sharp or B flat. From tabular data: wurchai is the name of a color in the spectrum visible to andros. wurchai is in the Near Ultraviolet (187-375 nm). In the five ‘octaves’ of the andro color spectrum, wurchai equates to a musical A#, and is in the same place in the octave as Red-Orange. More information is available in the reference table titled ANDRO COLOR NAMES. From tabular data for “wurchai": wurchai is the name of a color in the spectrum visible to andros. wurchai is in the Near Ultraviolet (187-375 nm). In the five ‘octaves’ of the andro color spectrum, wurchai equates to a musical A#, and is in the same place in the octave as Red-Orange. More information is available in the reference table titled ANDRO COLOR NAMES.
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