I like Zindell's choices of words. Just little things like naming one of the Transcended Ones Aesir, which is what the Viking gods called themselves. Or a planet named Sahasrara, which, in kundalini yoga, is the seventh chakra, the one that is actually outside the body, above the head.
I also love the names of the gods. Solid State Entity, Chimene, the Degula Trinity, the Silicon God, the April Colonial Intelligence, Pure Mind, Iamme, Maralah... I don't know if any of the uncommon ones have meanings, but they're all great anyway. ____________ Highdrake's mastery of spells and sorcery was not much greater than his pupil's, but he had clear in his mind the idea of something very much greater, the wholeness of knowledge. And that made him a mage.<i></i>
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