Robert A. W. Lowndes
4 Quotations from Robert A. W. Lowndes
| aspace adv. | 1942 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 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 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 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. |