Frank Belknap Long
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| blast rifle n. | 1935 Exiles of the Stratosphere in Astounding Stories July 44/1 He responded to the awful peril with a grim competence. Seizing the handle of his blast rifle he swung it swiftly about. |
| earth folk n. | 1936 Cones in Astounding Stories Feb. 124/1 Intrepid Earthfolk, suicide battalion people, walking slowly in their flexible suits of difrolchrome, weighted down with high-frequency coils and oxygen tanks and thigh-weights, and living, from instant to instant, dangerously. |
| energy weapon n. | 1944 Bridgehead in Astounding Science Fiction Aug. 124/1 The compact little energy weapon in the Interrogator’s clasp tore a gaping hole in the giant’s chest, spun him about, broke his back, and almost cut him in two. |
| force screen n. | 1939 Dweller in Outer Darkness in Thrilling Wonder Stories Aug. 68/2 The blast tubes in his hands were trained on me, but I knew I'd be safe enough and that Helen Torrey and Miles would remain unscathed. The refracting belts had built up an invisible force-screen about them. |
| gravity plate n. | 1943 Stellar Vampires in Science Fiction July 80/1 But there was nothing normal about a gravity plate that had resisted the tug of Mars only to buckle on little Phobos, crippling our ship on a blue moon that traveled in the wrong direction, and possessed a diameter of only eight minutes of arc when it was at its zenith. |
| planet-hopping n. | 1945 Filch in Astounding Science-Fiction Mar. 60/1 Space-warp travel had an advantage over mere planet hopping in a rocket-driven ship. |
| plasteel n. | 1945 Skyrover in Startling Stories Winter 92/1 One day, while they had been building a series of plasteel pillboxes, as a change from digging, one of the silicoidos came to life. |
| space explorer n. | 1936 Cones in Astounding Stories Feb. 124/1 He had become a space explorer, an adventurer of the skyways. |
| telepathize v. | 1944 Spawn of Further Dark in Startling Stories Spring 106/2 ‘Do not be alarmed,’ telepathized Sib Niguth. ‘You will awake together, and she will gravitate into your arms. You Third Planet bipeds are so emotional.’ |
| Titanian adj. | 1945 Hollow World in Startling Stories Summer xvi. 58/2 The ring was ruined, and could never be worn again. As for the mold—well, it was ruined too, but a microscopic plant capable of smashing a subatomic heat lamp at twelve feet was certainly no slouch in the power field. A Titanian microvolt mold, Carstairs had called it. Its enemies were shambling perambulating plants, with anteater-like mouth parts—plants that looked like traveling cranes. |