[SIZE=3]I like HARBINGERS. It's a good fit.

But how many people (those here excluded, of course) will know that it means someone/something that presages or foreshadows what is to come?

Exactly. All I know is they are hard-hearted and deal in hagus.

Exactly. All I know is they are hard-hearted and deal in hagus.

I'd have thought it was shorthand for a Harvey Wallbanger.

Dreams and Divination
The Scrying (or some variation of this obscure word)

I mentioned "Signs and Portents" in a previous post. I remember now I got this from Season One of Babylon 5, wherein the season and one episode bore that name. Someone wrote that JMS probably got the phrase from a Norman Corwin radio drama about WWII

Signs and portents!
It was no furtive tapping on the window sill at night,
But clamorous pounding in the public square.

I see some similarities between B5 and RJ - Otherness = Shadows, Kosh acts like the allies, humans caught in the middle, etc. No doubt this is a great story archetype, related since men first gathered in caves and wondered about the darkness outside.

The sales department might have a problem with that.

Reminds me of the title of the Bond movie "License to Kill". Supposedly its original title was "License Revoked", but it was changed because the studios (particularly in the U.S.) were worried that people wouldn't know what "revoked" meant. Funny.

Blake

Heralds synonymous with Harbingers

Cryptopia meaning "hidden sight"

How about..........

Darkish Chaos
Falling into Catastrophe
Dark Prediction

I think Gateways should be renamed Neato Mosquito.

Heralds synonymous with Harbingers

Cryptopia meaning "hidden sight"

Cryptopia...like that.

Cryptopia...like that.

Nice word, but most people wouldn't know what it meant. Reminds me of a Get Smart book I read back in the '60s (as a teenager). Max was introduced to a cryptographer, and wondered why anyone would want to photograph graves.

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Guy walks up to me, says: "Wanna buy some pornography?" I said: "Hell no! I don't even own a pornograph!"

Is a mammogram a Mothers' Day telegram?

Nice word, but most people wouldn't know what it meant.

Isn't the idea to attract attention? If everybook were titled to the understanding of the lowest common denominator, we'd have books like "A book about a killer" or "This one's about a guy who steals" or "Interview with the Vampire." Sometimes it works, most of the time it doesn't.

Let someone pick up a book with an unusual word and become enlightened by how it fits with the story.

Nice word, but most people wouldn't know what it meant.

Then there's Neal Stephenson's very successful novel, Cryptonomicon, a take on the invented (H.P. Lovecraft, I believe), Necronomicon, and cryptography.