Ansible Definition
(science fiction) A hypothetical device that enables users to communicate instantaneously across great distances; that is, a faster-than-light communication device.
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Origin of Ansible
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First used in 1966 in Rocannon's World and expanded on in 1974 in The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin; Le Guin states that she derived it from answerable.
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The ansible has more recently been adopted by Orson Scott Card, first in Ender's Game (1986) and then in successive works in his Ender's Game series.
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See also The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (1968).
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