The Made-Up Words of The Velocipede Races

This morning I got a question on my blog about one of the made up words in The Velocipede Races,which made me think about made-up words in general. I admit I have a tendency to make up words; it’s part of the tendency to make up worlds. When you design an alternate world, naturally (it seems to me) you need new words to describe parts of that new society that are different from ours.

In the case of the The Velocipede Races, one of the reasons I made up words was so that I didn’t end up basing...