Hello Leonard,

Yes, Ursula K LeGuin is credited with coining ansible, however they were not mentioned in the one or two books of hers that I have. I did read Orson Scott Card's Ender books, which is my only encounter with ansibles.

Tom Rux

> On October 4, 2019 at 7:14 AM "shadow at shadowgard.com (via tml list)" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
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> On 2 Oct 2019 at 20:35, Thomas RUX wrote:
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> > I know I've heard of ansible, but not in Traveller, after a search
> > online I found that the device was found in Ender's Game by Orson
> > Scott Card.
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> It was in Ursula K LeGuin's novels long before that. I believe she's
> the one who came up with the name. (Ursula K. Le Guin coined the word
> "ansible" in her 1966 novel Rocannon's World.)
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansible
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