Ray Bradbury
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12 Quotations from Ray Bradbury
| Earthian n. 1 | 1948 Million-Year Picnic 165 I was looking for Earthian logic, common sense, good government, peace and responsibility. |
| mag- prefix | 1943 King of Gray Spaces in Famous Fantastic Mysteries Dec. 122/2 They looked and acted as if they were going to attend a magnetic ball game at one of the local mag-fields. |
| marsquake n. | 1955 The Piper in Fantastic Stories Spring 85/1 ‘Whass that?’ asked Brondar. ‘That noise?’…‘Marsquake,’ said Nar, feebly rousing himself. ‘Shifting strata in the hills.’ |
| Mercurian adj. | 1951 Rocket Man in Illustrated Man 68 But I have to get my own collection, trading from other boys, the Martian rocks and Mercurian sands which filled my room, but about which Dad would never comment. |
| moon base n. | 1944 Lazarus Come Forth in Planet Stories Winter 108/2 Go up to the radio room and call Earth. We’ve got to rush the Scientist to Moon Base immediately. |
| moon rocket n. | 1947 Rocket Summer in Planet Stories Spring 50/1 The crew of the Moon Rocket stood in the air-lock. |
| problem story n. | 1947 P.S.’s Feature Flash in Planet Stories Spring 101/1 As I have pointed out innumerable times to friends and readers I am not responsible for my stories in any way, shape, or form [...] It is only fair that at this time I mention Ross Rocklynne. He does my ‘problem’ stories for me. We are now collaborating on a story in which the hero must work out a mathematical formula for kicking his way out of a gigantic paper bag. It is a story of immense possibilities and that dry rattling sound you hear is Mr. Rocklynne over in the far corner thrashing about in a large paper jerkin into which I have just sealed him. |
| rocketport n. | 1967 Lost City of Mars in 3 to the Highest Power (1968) 17 The wind that blew from the frontier town smelled of grease. An aluminum-toothed jukebox banged somewhere. A junk yard rusted beside the rocketport. Old newspapers danced on the windy tarmac. |
| skyhook n. 1 | 1938 Hollerbochen Comes Back: or Voyage of the Neuralgia in Mikros (#3) Nov. 1 Hurtling thru the stratosfere somewhere, a tiny piece of matter bobbed up & down just this side of the heaviside layer where the rockets turn to the right & take the airlane to Jupiter past the array of billboards hanging by skyhooks on the clouds. |
| space station n. | 1956 End of Beginning in R is for Rocket (1968) Think of it—a manned rocket going up tonight to build the first space station. |
| starport n. | [1944 I, Rocket in Amazing Stories May 114/1 After a while he looked up at the star-port. His eyes dilated very dark and wide. He stood up. He walked across the computation room and stood there, staring out.] |
| time machine n. | 1988 Toynbee Convector (1989) 3 Yes, the time machine is on exhibit below. |