Clifton B. Kruse

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7 Quotations from Clifton B. Kruse

mutant n.	1938 ‘S. Lane’ Niedbalski’s Mutant in Astounding Science-Fiction May 137/2 And yet I have, even in age, one source of joy. Man no longer calls me the ‘strange mutant’. My card reads simply: ‘Niedbalski’—the name of the man I love.
mutant n.	1938 ‘S. Lane’ Niedbalski’s Mutant in Astounding Science-Fiction May 133/1 I am what you have made me—the ultimate of that one sensitive mutant.
planet dweller n.	1936 C. B. Kruse Flight of the Typhoon in Astounding Stories Oct. 140/1 Of the four mariners in the place, only the monstrous quartermaster, who was known to spaceman and planet dweller alike as ‘Mark the Massive’, seemed to take any note of my entrance.
rocketeer n.	1941 C. B. Kruse Planet Leave in Cosmic Stories Mar. 78/1 He wore the woven bronze-mesh uniform of a commercial rocketeer service.
scouter n.	1936 C. B. Kruse Flight of the Typhoon in Astounding Stories Oct. 142/2 I soon discovered that off-duty hours on board a rocket scouter were little more than eating and sleeping until the chimes sounded out again. Indeed, there was no recreation room, nothing to read.
space legs n.	1936 C. B. Kruse Flight of Typhoon in Astounding Stories Oct. 140/1 When I had gained my space legs sufficiently to leave the cushioned protection of my bunk, I shuffled along the spiral tube which terminated in the glittering fascination of the control room.
universe-wide adj.	1935 C. B. Kruse Princess of Pallis in Astounding Stories Oct. 101/1 She was a strong ship, built to carry tons of freight from planet to planet throughout the interplanetary’s universe-wide territory of commerce.