subether
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editsubether (countable and uncountable, plural subethers)
- (science fiction) A fictional medium through which faster-than-light signals are able to travel.
- 1996, Michael Kandel, Panda Ray, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 134:
- Her instrument panel was dead, not a single light across the con- sole on. Evidently the bdellium dish wasn't working. Either that, or the subether was still. Though the subether was never still, filled with voices from unimaginable distances.
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edit- Jesse Sheidlower, editor (2001–2024), “sub-ether, n.”, in Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction.