Robert A. W. Lowndes

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Robert A. W. Lowndes

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aspace adv. 1942 ‘P. D. Lavond’ Einstein’s Planetoid in Science Fiction Quarterly Spring 101/2 We can still be the fastest thing aspace and not be capable of a voyage to Alpha Centauri and back within the span of a lifetime.
ferry n. 1952 ‘M. Sherman’ Matter of Faith in Space Science Fiction Sept. 66/2 It was easy, too, to enter the planet Grekh; you just boarded an interworld ferry from either of the two sister-planets.
interworld adj. 1952 ‘M. Sherman’ Matter of Faith in Space Science Fiction Sept. 66/2 It was easy, too, to enter the planet Grekh; you just boarded an interworld ferry from either of the two sister-planets, Pittam or Speewry.
superscience n. 1956 R. W. Lowndes Wonderfulness in Science Fiction Quarterly Feb. 48/1 (editorial) They [sc. the protagonists of early science-fiction stories] were essentially ordinary men, sometimes idealized, to the point of ridiculousness; outside of his mighty brain—reinforced by the super[-]science of Norlamin, etc.—Richard Seaton [a character in E. E. Smith’s Skylark series] was so common as to be prosaic. As dull a superman as you’d want to meet.