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Examples

  • “I’m a scholic,” I say to him again, knowing that he’s passing all this along to his silent friend via the radio link he called tightbeam earlier.

    Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981

  • We're getting a tightbeam message on the same frequency the aliens used when they sent that message to the President.

    I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010

  • "I think you'd better tightbeam over here and deliver a hardcopy personally."

    Another Big Dumb Object 2010

  • Even the internet was up and running, on a T1 line to a standard server with a cross-worlds energy link via tightbeam broadcast to Underhill through a Nexus.

    Spirits White As Lightning Lackey, Mercedes 2001

  • The ships stayed in communication via tightbeam laser and psilink.

    Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000

  • The ships stayed in communication via tightbeam laser and psilink.

    The Romulan Way Diane Duane 2000

  • The ships stayed in communication via tightbeam laser and psilink.

    The Romulan Way Diane Duane 2000

  • The ships stayed in communication via tightbeam laser and psilink.

    Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000

  • The ships stayed in communication via tightbeam laser and psilink.

    Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000

  • The answer floated up into his awareness from the peripherals; tightbeam signal, modulated subspace waves, picked up by one of the passive buoys out on the fringes of the system.

    The City Who Fought McCaffrey, Anne 1993

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