Walt Sheldon

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food pill n. 1950 W. Sheldon Country Beyond the Curve in Amazing Stories Oct. 87/2 Someone gave me a food pill and I took it automatically.
insectoid adj. 1950 'S. Walters' All You Do Is Tranz the Frammis! in Amazing Stories July 82/1 The third creature was hard, stiff, plated, and insectoid.
light barrier n. 2 1950 W. Sheldon Salad Citizens in Thrilling Wonder Stories Oct. 133/2 Me—the first guy to take a ship through the light barrier, even if it did disintegrate.
light barrier n. 2 1950 W. Sheldon Eyes are Watching in Amazing Stories July 103/2 The speed of light. Pluto and back. That was only the test. That was only a quick run and the light barrier would be crossed for only a few seconds during the trip.
moonport n. 1950 W. Sheldon The Eyes Are Watching in Amazing Stories July 96/2 Bell led him…to a brightly lighted bistro labeled the Moonport Bar and Grill…. The place was basically a bar room with tables and booths, but it was done up to represent the popular idea of a moonport. It had weird cardboard cut-out foliage growing here and there. High murals depicted bug-eyed monsters chasing scantily dressed babes among fantastic ferns.
rocketeer n. 1950 W. Sheldon Music of Spheres in Startling Stories July 115/2 Mr. Optimum Stability, himself—at least that was what they told me after an I.B.M. machine picked me from my psychograph out of all the other rocketeers and jetmen in the World Air Force.
space fiction n. 1948 W. Sheldon Perfect Servant in Startling Stories July 116/1 In Vienna I make my reputation on musicals. So I come to Hollywood. So what do they give me? An epic. About the future, yet. The story they get from a magazine called Atomic Space Fiction. I can’t even understand it. It opens in a laboratory. How do I know if the laboratory Soumazowsky, my technical adviser, builds is authentic?
tri-vid n. 1955 W. Sheldon Your Time Is Up in Worlds of If June 44/1 But this talk about—about dial phones. About armies. Why, you sound like one of those historical tri-vids about the twentieth century!