Algis Budrys
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| Bradburyesque adj. | 1976 in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May 28/2 What is thought of now as typically Bradburyesque writing. |
| Campbellian adj. | 1989 Books in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction July 29/1 SF descended from Campbellian ‘modern’ SF—which is, still, what U.S. SF is in large part—could use practitioners well acquainted with descriptive-fiction techniques and technical standards. |
| earthling n. | 1993 Hard Landing 100 Furthermore, I did not know if an un-Earthling had ever previously been encountered, but that did not mean much; you can trust any branch of the service above a certain level of rank to keep its secrets. |
| earthman n. | 1993 Hard Landing 125 Suddenly I realized I had been down on this planet less than a day, and already I was more Earthman than not. |
| earth people n. | 1954 To Civilize in Future Science Fiction Jan. 68/2 He could not let the Galactics depart and leave him without an answer. He pushed himself back from the rail and slid rapidly down the ramp to the room where the Earthpeople were. |
| Earthside adj. | 1956 Mechanical Man in Fantastic Universe June 6/2 The Service hoes a hard row, Earthside. Your work makes it a little bit easier. |
| Earthside adv. | 1956 Mechanical Man in Fantastic Universe June 6/2 The Service hoes a hard row, Earthside. Your work makes it a little bit easier. |
| fandom n. | 1952 Everybody Gets in the Act in Planet Stories Nov. 111/1 (letter) But remember that all of organized fandom is a little grain of sand on the shore of a more or less mighty ocean of greenbacks…. So quit trying to say that fandom could bring more than moral pressure on an editor. |
| fanmag n. | 1952 Everybody Gets in the Act in Planet Stories Nov. 111/1 (letter) The advertising value of fanzines to promags is negligible, for the simple reason that anyone in sufficient contact with STF to read fanmags knows all about the prozines. |
| fanzine n. | 1952 Everybody Gets in the Act in Planet Stories Nov. 111/1 (letter) The advertising value of fanzines to promags is negligible, for the simple reason that anyone in sufficient contact with STF to read fanmags knows all about the prozines. |
| fen n. | 1952 Letter in Planet Stories Nov. 111/1 The laugh’s on the non-fen for supporting space devoted to activities completely unconnected with their interests. |
| hyperspatial adj. | 1957 War Is Over in Astounding Science Fiction Feb. 135/2 Engines and hyperspatial generator functioning erratically, and ship definitely off course, though navigation at present impossible. |
| imaginative adj. | 1969 Galaxy Book Shelf in Galaxy Nov. 115/1 In science fiction, or in any other class of imaginative literature, we tend to equate notability and serial complexity. |
| jump v. | 1954 Deckplate Blues in Fantastic Universe Mar. 122/2 In another moment the Baltimore would….have to jump back into hyperspace. |
| kiloyear n. | 1954 End of Summer in Astounding Science Fiction Nov. 27/1 There was nothing that said he had to reach a decision right this minute. He’d waited ten kiloyears. It could wait a little longer. |
| plane n. | 1980 Books in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Mar. 47/2 A society in harmonious tune with the Universe, capable of perceiving multiple planes of existence, travelling at multiples of the speed of light. |
| planet-hopper n. 1 | 1953 Blood on My Jets in Rocket Stories July 16/2 And, as we’d gone our separate ways, so our ways of thinking had changed. Thorsten—well, he’d taken his choice, and some day I might have to go into the Belt and do something about it, but Mort’s attitude hurt. He didn’t have any respect for me—he couldn’t have, for a man who’d resigned his commission and become a planet-hopper. |
| pocket universe n. | 1966 Galaxy Bookshelf in Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine Aug. 190/2 The writer is not allowed to bring in moral judgments, what ‘everyone knows’ about the condition of the world or dogma of any sort. His characters may of course believe in these things, or they would not seem like people; but no individual who sets out to create a pocket universe is allowed the luxury of evading his responsibilities behind a bunch of mere words, no matter how skillfully spoken or how comforting their message. |
| probability world n. | 1958 Never Meet Again in Infinity Science Fiction Mar. 33/2 He had suspected that the probability world his apparatus could most easily adjust him for would be one in which Germany had lost the war. |
| promag n. | 1952 Everybody Gets in the Act in Planet Stories Nov. 111/1 (letter) The advertising value of fanzines to promags is negligible, for the simple reason that anyone in sufficient contact with STF to read fanmags knows all about the prozines. |
| prozine n. | 1952 Everybody Gets in the Act in Planet Stories Nov. 111/1 (letter) The advertising value of fanzines to promags is negligible, for the simple reason that anyone in sufficient contact with STF to read fanmags knows all about the prozines. |
| pulp science fiction n. | 1976 in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Jan. 23/2 Otherwise, in a rather short time everything we ‘know’ about pulp SF will be secondhand inferences and adumbrations by earnest, painstaking, unempathetic, style-deaf, obtuse people. |
| starfaring adj. | 1983 Books in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction July 34/2 The frequently resorted-to setting of a war between humans and a totally alien starfaring race. |
| starfaring adj. | 1993 Hard Landing 61 None of us—not even poor, lonely Selmon, who actually knew something about what goes on inside a starfaring engine—is going to try to help with that. |
| stef n. | 1982 Books in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Aug. 25/1 The cover of Planets Three inexplicably shows Lester del Rey attempting to fend off an advancing tentacular robot with a dish of catfood, but the stories are by Frederik Pohl. [...] They are pretty good thud-and-blunder stef, nevertheless, and if you’re in the right mood, they will Do the Job. |
| stef n. | 1961 Inside Story: A Tragedy With Music in Ice Age (#4) ii. 16 [Parody of West Side Story] When you’re in stef, you’re in stef all the way / From the Big Little Books to a pad in L.A.— / When you’re in stef you’re incurably in— / You’ve got stef in your blood, you can’t quit, it’s a sin. [...] When you’re in stef you stay in stef! |
| stfcon n. | 1952 Letter in Planet Stories Nov. 111/1 If the mat for the liver pill ad comes in, out goes the stfcon publicity. |
| thud and blunder n. | 1976 Books in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Feb. 51/2 Perhaps conscious that someone might then mistake Bulmer for a thud-and-blunder writer, Equinox describe this as a ‘classic novel which was the first to incorporate the ideas of undersea farming,’ an assertion which will be of some interest to Arthur C. Clarke. |
| tractor ray n. | 1958 Edge of Sea in Venture Science Fiction Mar. 22/1 The thing in the water stirred, and they could see the rocks move. ‘Tractor rays,’ the professor said in a husky voice. ‘Theoretically impossible.’ |
| ultradrive n. | 1957 Hot Potato in Astounding Science Fiction July 110/1 Four hundred years ago, this had been Man’s earliest foothold on the stars—earliest, and, as it developed, only. The passage time had been worked down from ten years to five and a half, toward the end, but that was the best they could do. They were tinkering with an ultradrive just before the Invaders hit Earth. They still were, but it was too late for the Solar System. |
| Worldcon n. | 1952 Letter in Planet Stories Nov. 111/1 Newspaper publicity for worldcons is ludicrous. |
| xenoanthropology n. | 1966 Galaxy Bookshelf in Galaxy Oct. 155/2 [Poul] Anderson’s [short story] is about xenathropology, politics and moral courage. |
| xenolinguist n. | 1955 Strange Room in Fantastic Universe Jan. 70/1 'I can prove it,' the xenolinguist said, still softly. |
| xenolinguistics n. | 1955 Strange Room in Fantastic Universe Jan. 60 James Dalkeith, graduate in xenolinguistics, sat in his cabin and wrote a letter to his wife. |