Richard S. Shaver
11 Quotations from Richard S. Shaver
| beam weapon n. | 1952 The Sun-Smiths in Other Worlds Aug. 60/2 The stranger…had flashed his beam weapon upon him and cut him down. |
| grav n. 1 | 1946 Earth Slaves to Space in Amazing Stories Sept. 41/2 But I had much to learn, for as the Darkspear nosed down to a landing beside the Freyan ship in the sea of Freyanania, I saw that there were indeed wonders on this little planet, which had quite a strong gravity, for as we shut off the gravs and all the motors of the Darkspear, the load on our feet decreased but little. |
| insectoid adj. | 1953 Beyond the Barrier in Other Worlds Jan. 103/2 They revealed a long-bodied insectoid creature, rather attractively colored in a complex green and gold pattern. They went upon two legs, and used their other six legs for wielding tools, the tools with which they destroyed their forests and their soil. Their heads were handsome, almost animal in shape, with well defined nose and chin like humans. |
| mind-controlled adj. | 1949 Pillars of Delight in Amazing Stories Dec. 31/2 Here in this world of motile mind-controlled force we can shape our thoughts into things about us. |
| sci-fic n. | 1971 Letter in Amazing Stories Nov. 111/2 About the time I left the sci-fic scene…sex took over as the main theme of sci-fic as well as in other fields. [ellipsis in orig.] |
| space-burned adj. | 1946 Earth Slaves to Space in Amazing Stories Sept. 39/2 They peered through the darkness in the cell and one tall, space-burned female, her burly body aglitter with metal ornaments, and with a long dis-ray hung on each hip, her leather harness chased with figures of the outlandish animals of Tiran, cried: ‘Here they are; two slaves who flaunt their murder of our highest and our best, Divnani, the kindest, most worthy of all the Tiran women!’ |
| space gun n. 2 | 1946 Return of Sathanas in Amazing Stories Nov. 44/2 We rounded a curve in the companionway and nearly barged into a ray-post unannounced. At the controls of the huge space gun sat a big Angle in the uniform of Sathanas' service. |
| space pirate n. | 1946 Earth Slaves to Space in Amazing Stories Sept. 22/1 I have been working, during the past war on the development of the atomic bomb. Naturally I don’t want the secret of the atomic bomb falling into any space-pirate’s hands—even if I never knew there was a space pirate before today. |
| space platform n. | 1952 Sun-Smiths in Other Worlds Aug. 67/1 June was breathless in anticipation, especially after the marvelous mechanisms and perfect appointments she had seen in the space platform. |
| spy ray n. | 1949 Fall of Lemuria in Other Worlds Nov. 23/2 She sensed it had been watching some member of this household, and she knew then it was a spy ray, for her family were all apt to be engaged in important defense work for the safety of her people. It had been taking notes of the sleeping minds in this house for a long time. Taking thought records from the sleeping minds of the details of the routing of supplies. |
| Tellus n. | 1953 Beyond the Barrier in Other Worlds Jan. 104/1 They swooped down over it, and it was as Tyron said, a very ancient craft, of the indestructible perdurable metal of the ancients who had colonized Tellus so long ago. |