What is "fusionist"

Usage examples of "fusionist".

The timing and quantity of the energy input might be as tightly controlled as you liked, and your Fusionist might be the best in space, but the uncertainty principle reigned supreme and there was always the chance, even the inevitability of a random miss.

The captain might be autocrat of all the rest of the ship, but a Fusionist was a Jaw to himself, and always had been.

Even to the passengers (he thought with some disgust) the Fusionist is the emperor of the spaceways and everyone beside dwindles to impotence.

The computers might calculate the exact quantity and timing of the energy input and the exact place and direction (if “direction “ had any meaning in the transition from tardyon to tachyon), but the margin of error was huge and only a talented Fusionist could lower it.

What it was that gave a Fusionist his talent, no one knew-they were born, not made.

But Fusionists knew they had the talent and there was never one that didn't trade on that.

You can't do your job, either, so why is the Fusionist always the villain.

There was always the tendency to save time by making two Jumps in rapid succession, but if one Jump involved certain unavoidable uncertainties, two in succession greatly multiplied those uncertainties, and even the best Fusionist couldn't do much.

The energy supply was recorded and could be inspected, but even so, Fusionists had been known to organize the records in such a way as to leave themselves some leeway for that second Jump.

He knew--everyone knew--that it had been the Fusionist Brotherhood that had been the driving force behind that regulation.

A Double-Jump, sometimes insisted on by the captain, much more often than not made the Fusionist look bad.

But perhaps whatever it was in the Fusionists' brains that made them Fusionists and allowed them to go, by sheer intuition, beyond the best of computers might be particularly complex and therefore particularly vulnerable.

It was an old, old song, and he was one Fusionist who wouldn't take it.

Even a Fusionist knew better than to reveal anything prematurely to a passenger.

He only told me because he had just figured it out and was all excited about it and had to talk to someone, but he said there was an easy way out and that the Fusionist would know what to do so that there was no need to worry at all.