Up and Coming: Stories by the 2016 Campbell-Eligible Authors - читать бесплатно онлайн полную версию книги автора SL Huang (ч. notes)

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bayraktar—standard-bearer (Turkish) (translators' note).

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The old Turkish name for the Bulgarian town of Stara Zagora (translators' note).

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Armenian version of the author’s name (Ivan Popov) (translators' note).

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"Pearl" is also slang for a locally produced hallucinogenic that is sometimes used in meditation. Despite the name, the connection with either natural or android nacre has not been confirmed, largely due to lack of research.

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APC: Android Production Committee.

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These are commonly referred to as Androids, as this has been the popular term for many decades—however the universal applicability of the term has been questioned on various grounds. Still, other proposed terms, such as Gynoid and Cyborg, although more accurate in certain cases, are no longer in widespread use.