babbletongue - A drug used to elicit truth and confessions in Heaven. (If any innocent outsiders should think this courtroom use of alcohol a barbarous expedient, and should be moved to denounce Chalakanesian...

crisp - So saying, he noted the date and the participants. Atlanta saw he was using Crisp, the civil service shorthand, rather than the secret Family shorthand. Crisp was used to record trials at the Court of...

Inner Language Of The Cult Of Assassins - 'Very well then,' said Rector Om. 'When I say the word - run. And the word is - hablis baroka!' Heineman thought that was properly two words rather than one, but, as they were phrased in the Inner...

Jubiladilia Shorthand - Heineman closed his eyes, and strange hooked patterns crawled across his field of vision. Those fragmentary dream-images echoed the secret shorthand of the accountants of the Family Jubiladilia. Their...