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On 2001-12-18 14:32, Paul Unwin wrote:
Orson Scott Card also used the word for the instantaneous communication device in his Ender novels. In the first novel, one of the characters refers to the device and mentions that the name is from an old science fiction story - probably LeGuin's.
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So, one writer coined a term for an FTL communicator and another borrowed it for his series. Hmm. Still makes me wonder if it deserves inclusion here. Now if it were considered by many as a standard term for such an item, then maybe. But I'm sure most people haven't even heard the word.