Evening Jeff,

Yes, the research confirms that Ursula K. LeGuin basically coined ansible in her writing. My first contact was in Orson Scott Card's Ender stories. Cian mentioned the ansible was in Freelance Traveller and thank you for the link.

Tom Rux

> On October 3, 2019 at 4:33 PM Jeff Zeitlin <xxxxxx@freelancetraveller.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 20:35:57 -0700 (PDT), Thomas RUX <xxxxxx@comcast.net>
> wrote:
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> >Hello Cian,
> >
> >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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> I believe that the original use of the term was by Ursula K. LeGuin in her
> Hainish Ecumen novels; it has since been widely picked up by just about any
> author that has faster-than-travel/faster-than-light communications in
> their novel settings.
>
> FWIW, I had a thread on ansibles in Traveller here on the list some time
> back, wherein I assumed that it was essentially a FTT/FTL
> "telephone/vidphone" or "rich-media email" system; the results of that
> discussion were beaten into article shape, and printed as
> https://www.freelancetraveller.com/features/rules/tech/ansibles.html