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Title: Animacide

Definition: The mass killing of a large group of animals, domestic or wild, especially those killed by natural disasters and habitat destruction due to global warming. Derived from the term 'genocide' and 'ecocide'.

Usages of precursors to Animacide in Modern Literature

The Anchorites, those who would achieve immortality, or at least very long life, by stealing the lives of others — the Horologists call it “animacide” — recall J. K. Rowling’s Death Eaters. [1]

Once we enter the psychic world at war of section 5, its narrator, Marinus, introduces us to its special vocabulary with an inventive number of neologisms: “subspeech,” “metalife,” “animacide,” “suasion,” and so on. In the final section, the much older Holly’s description of a near-end-of-the-world scenario employs its own appropriate jargon with references to “prebroadband speed,” “Ratflu,” “the Endarkenment,” “Stability,” “Technotopia,” et cetera. [2]

References

[1] http://text-patterns.thenewatlantis.com/2014/

[2] https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/adding-ubernovel-david-mitchell/