Judith Merril

Earthish n.	1956 J. Merril Homecalling in Science Fiction Stories Nov. 36/1 If she answered the silly questions right out loud, that was all right too, because they couldn’t understand her anyhow. How would they know Earthish?
jumpship n.	1957 ‘R. Sharon’ The ‘Lady’ was a Tramp in Venture Science Fiction Magazine Mar. 45/1 On a Navy transport, a full Lieutenant IBMan would be in charge of SolNav only, with two petty officers under him, both qualified to handle maintenance, and one at least with a Navy rating, capable of relieving him on duty at the control board during the five or twelve or twenty hours it might take to navigate a jump-ship in or out of the obstacle course of clutter and junk and planets and orbits of any given System.
medikit n.	1952 J. Merril Whoever You Are in Startling Stories Dec. 67/1 He made a routine extra check of his equipment: tank, jetter, axe, welder, magnograpple, mechitape recorder, (no radio in an insul-suit), knife, gun, signal mirror, medikit.
speculative fiction n. 2	1952 ‘J. Merril’ Preface in Beyond Human Ken xii The stories included in this collection were written and published over a period of some fifteen years; I think they are the forerunners of the speculative fiction of tomorrow.