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  • Found this cool dictionary looking for the origin of the term "organlegger".

    Found this cool dictionary looking for the origin of the term "organlegger". 2006

  • Speculative Fiction: Found this cool dictionary looking for the origin of the term "organlegger".

    Found this cool dictionary looking for the origin of the term "organlegger". 2006

  • Found this cool dictionary looking for the origin of the term "organlegger".

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  • In Niven's tales - which follow future cop Gil "the ARM" Hamilton - society's hunger for fresh organs becomes sufficiently powerful that black-market "organlegger" gangsters seize people off the street and break them up for parts.

    The Register 2010

  • For instant replacement of your ruined digestive system, for a young healthy heart, for a whole liver when you'd ruined yours with alcohol ... you had to go to an organlegger;

    Minnesota Menage Jack Swenson 2010

  • An organlegger can change his face and fingerprints as he censored pleases, but he can't change his tolerance to transplants.

    Minnesota Menage Jack Swenson 2010

  • A small-time organlegger named Raphael Haine was trying to reach a call button in his own home.

    Minnesota Menage Jack Swenson 2010

  • Anthony Tiller, known organlegger, suspected member of the Anubis gang.

    Minnesota Menage Jack Swenson 2010

  • Mr. Jennison was contacted by an agent of Loren, the organlegger, who intended to sell transplant material to Belters.

    Minnesota Menage Jack Swenson 2010

  • A surgeon and an organlegger-hunting ARM, we made a strange pairing.

    Minnesota Menage Jack Swenson 2010

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