René Lafayette

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Used as a pseudonym. See also: L. Ron Hubbard

11 Quotations from René Lafayette

force screen n.	1948 ‘R. Lafayette’ Great Air Monopoly in Astounding Science Fiction Sept. 75/1 This fussed him so that he shut off the force screens and would have carried Ole Doc straight back into the ship for a take-off had not his revered master been staring so hard, pipe again forgotten.
hull v.	1948 ‘R. Lafayette’ Great Air Monopoly in Astounding Science Fiction Sept. 81/2 For she wasn’t hulled that he could see and her tubes at one end and her Texas at the other were untouched.
impervium n.	1949 ‘R. Lafayette’ Emperor of Universe in Startling Stories Nov. 139/2 We had no air, we had no water, we had no food and our drives—antique directors which had gone out with Lorrilard—had burned themselves into a dainty crisp of curled impervium.
prespace adj.	1949 ‘R. Lafayette’ Emperor of Universe in Startling Stories Nov. 134/1 No one seems to know, although there are many guesses of course, just how pre-space man arrived at the mysterious A.D. which he appends on his stone carvings everywhere he first trod. Astronomical research into this has only brought bewilderment since absolutely no stellar nor terrestial cataclysm can be located which would begin his A.D. And when he changed to a sensible binary day and a galactic year the records of that moment were subsequently destroyed.
rocketman n.	1949 ‘R. Lafayette’ Unwilling Hero in Startling Stories July 102/2 To see Earth and the Moon grow small, to behold the Sun dwindling to an unimpressive star, is an experience which has unnerved many a hardy rocket man.
sentience n. 1	1949 ‘R. Lafayette’ Emperor of Universe in Startling Stories Nov. 134/1 His writings, even if they were entirely disregarded in his lifetime, demonstrate an enormous command of the problems of inter-system government. They show a sentience on the subject of politics which one regrets is not general amongst our modern gentry.
space exploration n.	1949 ‘R. Lafayette’ The Unwilling Hero in Startling Stories July 124/1 Space exploration was suddenly popular. Money was abruptly available for it. Plans of conquest of new worlds were formed properly, as they should be, by thinking governments and Man was no longer an insignificant nothing on a minor planet of a minor sun. Man was suddenly tall, suddenly the proprietor of uncounted worlds, possessor of his right, ruler of the Universe.
space exploration n.	1949 ‘R. Lafayette’ Forbidden Voyage in Startling Stories Jan. 144/2 In fact, before space exploration had begun, the greater number of people treated it as a subject of laughter and even those who should have known better thought that it was a far, far cry and would be of dubious benefit.
space explorer n.	1949 ‘R. Lafayette’ The Unwilling Hero in Startling Stories July 99/1 According to the records which exist in the Galactic Archives (exhumed lately from a ruined library on Mars) Victor Hughes Hardin—the V. H. Hardin so dear to legend—had no more idea of being a space explorer before he became one, than he had of being immortal.
spaceward adv.	1949 ‘R. Lafayette’ Plague in Astounding Science Fiction Apr. 8/1 At 11 :67 [sic] the Star of Space lifted from her cradle, hovered and then slowly rose spacewards, doomed.
terrestial adj.	1949 ‘R. Lafayette’ Emperor of Universe in Startling Stories Nov. 134/1 No one seems to know, although there are many guesses of course, just how pre-space man arrived at the mysterious A.D. which he appends on his stone carvings everywhere he first trod. Astronomical research into this has only brought bewilderment since absolutely no stellar nor terrestial cataclysm can be located which would begin his A.D. And when he changed to a sensible binary day and a galactic year the records of that moment were subsequently destroyed.