HDSF: Michael F. Flynn
Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction
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big dumb object n. 2003 M. Flynn Wreck of the River of Stars 236 The engineer frowned. ‘I don’t like it when machines act un-predictably. I was on Iskander Pasha when its AI skewed. Can you BDO the net?’ ‘I know my business,’ said The Lotus Jewel sharply. ‘A crew this size couldn’t run a Big Dumb Object.’ fannishness n. 1991 L. Niven, J. Pournelle, & M. Flynn Fallen Angels 24 Eventually she had had to watch what she said around him because she couldn’t be sure that he wouldn’t denounce her for fannishness to the University. gafiate v. 1991 L. Niven, J. Pournelle, & M. Flynn Fallen Angels 23–4 ‘We heard you'd gafiated.’ ‘Fafiated.’ She looked him straight in the eye, daring him to disagree. She hadn’t gotten away from it all; she'd been forced away from it all. shuttlecraft n. 2017 M. F. Flynn Nexus in Analog Science Fiction and Fact Mar.–Apr. iv. 22/1 Instruments identify the source as a small, boxy vehicle nesting in the shadows across the way, and he sprints toward it. The vessel is unfamiliar and too small even for a shuttlecraft. threedy n. 2019 M. F. Flynn Singing City in Analog Science Fiction & Fact Sept.–Oct. 149/1 He himself had only been, what? Ten? Hush. Be quiet. Grownups clustered with worried faces around the threedy, flickering images from far away, grave pronouncements by solemn men and women. Don't you know there’s a Crisis? Men and women are dying to save children like you. At strange places with strange names. The Bean. Left Hook. Damocles. Deimos. Phobos. No, he hadn’t known. At ten, there was little to know except that Popito was away and Mamita sometimes cried herself to sleep.