BDO

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BDO (plural BDOs)

(science fiction criticism) Initialism of Big Dumb Object.
- 2018 January 8, James Davis Nicoll, “A Brief History of the Big Dumb Object Story in Science Fiction”, in Tor.com‎^[1], archived from the original on 2022-11-28:
  There may be another characteristic BDOs need to have to be considered a classic BDO: absent creators and a consequently mysterious purpose. At the very least, by the time the story begins, the BDO has been around for a long time.