Citations:electrovore

English citations of electrovore

Noun: "(science fiction) an organism or entity which feeds on electricity"

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• 1984, Peter Forbes, "The silicon solution", New Scientist, 8 November 1984:

  In Cosmos, Carl Sagan speculates on the existence of extraterrestrial civilisations, which he characterises pretentiously by means of hypothetical summaries such as: "cryogen supercooled electrovores with neutron crystal dense packing and modular starminers ..."

• 1998 October 30, Rollin Thomas, “New Borg Graduate Student.”, in talk.bizarre‎^[1] (Usenet):

  ! WE DO NOT CONSUME EARTH FOOD. WE ARE ELECTROVORES. IF YOU
  ! HAVE A SURGE PROTECTOR WE WOULD BE MOST OBLIGED.

• 2011 March 6, Steven L., “Re: Existence of electrical entities”, in talk.origins‎^[2] (Usenet):

  And in his "Cosmos" series, Sagan had speculated about life forms that are naturally evolved semiconductor "electrovores," feeding on electricity directly.

• 2013, Ian Douglas, Deep Space: Star Carrier, HarperCollins (2013), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  There were, Gregory knew, AIs residing within implants in dolphin brains now designed to bridge the linguistic barriers between the species, but those translations had only proven that dolphin brains were as alien to humans as the group minds of the abyssal electrovores inhabiting the under-ice ocean of Enceladus.