Robert Abernathy
7 Quotations from Robert Abernathy
| light-day n. | 1949 Giants Return in Planet Stories Fall 45/2 One light-day out from Procyon, the thirty-third day by ship’s time since leaving Earth. |
| Martian n. 2 | 1947 Failure on Titan in Planet Stories Winter 63/1 It was a minute before she could command her voice; then she told Paul Gedner what he was, in terms that Leo Chaikoski would never have thought of, in English, Spanish, and Martian. |
| overdrive n. | [1944 Saboteur of Space in Planet Stories Spring 59/2 When the doctor had escaped gratefully from the Shahrazad’s topsy-turvy gravity, Mury gave power to the overdrive, sent the ship swinging back into a course for the point of intersection with the flight of the power projectile.] |
| pleasure planet n. | 1954 The Fishers in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Dec. 7 The Tethys project seems to be to develop the satellite as a sort of resort, a low-gravity pleasure planet. |
| teleport n. 1 | 1945 Canal Builders in Astounding Science Fiction Jan. 44/1 When we use the teleport, we travel through a sort of interspace between Earth and Mars, in which the distance is insignificant—infinitesimal, so that for practical purposes we have the planets superimposed. |
| vacuum suit n. | 1947 Failure on Titan in Planet Stories Winter 61/1 He removed the helmet, set it carelessly on the desk-top, and, turning, began to unzip his vacuum suit. |
| vacuum-suited adj. | 1947 Failure on Titan in Planet Stories Winter 57/2 Two vacuum-suited silhouettes appeared in the lighted airlock and began to clamber down, the first with a self-possessed poise, the other showing signs of a jerky impatience. |