A BRIEF “EDGE OF MADNESS” GLOSSARY

ACRONYMEUR - a professional who concatonates and/or abbreviates words or phrases.
act - work
Adaptive Reconstructive Surgery (ARS) - functioning biological additions e.g. a simian tail (replacing tattoos and skin art)
adverter - influencer
CableCandy - proprietary, pre-programmed sensory-perception-memories
Cape Bold Public Interplanetary Travel System ("it's the PITS")
Chica - Chicago, the capital of NewAmerica
Chin - non-Earth planet controlled by former China
community - a state in reorganized NewAmerica
comp - salaried compensation aka sally
cons - one's social contribution (work)
ContraSex - sex encouraged by Contraspray
Contraspray -proprietary over-thec-counter substance encouraging sex without conception
custodian - appointed by government to act on behalf of the child from six to sixteen years of age
Dark Age - second Dark Age associated with the collapse of the USA
Designer Jeans ("digjeez") - genetic bits that when injected can integrate within a body's DNA
draw - cost of
drain - to pay for
enforcer - enigmatic NewAmerica "policeman"
eugitor - wearable wireless distance-controlable male or female sex "skin"
EyeCandy - glasses that subtly alter one's perceptions and memories
Fast Eddie - person seeking quick recompense
foray - a group or gang of young adults who hang out together
IHI - Interactive Holographic Instruction (replaces inperson classroom instruction)
Malthusian Nightmare of early 2000's - theoretical endgame causing the loss of 2/3 of Earth's population
mob - core members of an early social group
nest mates - member of an early mob
NewMoon - NewTerran offshoot populating the moon
NewTerra - the origin and gathering place of humanity (Earth) aka "Mother Earth," "Cradle of Humankind" - controlled by NewAmerica
NewTimes - decade after Second Dark Age
NICMEDS (neurally integrated crystalline memory devices) for storing information and data
Pros - skill propensities
Radicali - innovative futurists
RE (registered entity) - plant or animal legally registered and husbanded by someone
Rus - non-Earth planet controlled by former Russia
sally - salaried compensation aka comp
SalsaSex - public sex
SalsaSexcapade - outrageous public sex
savetime - "memories" created of another time and/or place
Shi - new (typically appending a place name when the place has been substantially altered)
shimmer suit (w/wo convenience slits) - monomolecular color-controllable "clothes"
SweetSixteen - ritual transitions from adolescence to full adulthood establishing one's pros and cons
Synesthetic savant - altered or mixed hypersensate individual
T-rips - proprietary programs for installing new sensory memory experiences
Unisensory savant - individual with one hypersense, assumedly at the expense of others
United Nations (United Planets or UP) - UP yours
Walk - virtual or real vacation

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The Edge of Madness

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