Word of the day:
"Ansible"
Ursula K. LeGuin coined this word in her seminal work The Left Hand of Darkness in 1969.
It is a contraction of "answerable", but other scifi writers use it to call any device for instantaneous or at least faster-than-light communication.
It's also the name of a software for platform automation, which is drowning your LeGuin results.
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. LeGuin, 1969
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