Andre Norton
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| alien life form n. | 1970 Dread Companion (1984) 44 A poohka was an alien life-form from off-world and created with its small, furry body the instant desire to cuddle—a perfect pet. |
| alternate history n. | 1967 Operation Time Search i. 6 You have heard of the alternate history theory—that from each major historical decision two alternate worlds come into being. |
| antigravity adj. | 1953 Star Rangers x. 136 How do you get out of here?…Anti-gravity lift. |
| automatics n. | 1969 Postmarked the Stars viii. 103 Meshler gave an exclamation and thumped a fist against one of the dials on the board. Its needle quivered a fraction but did not turn. Then he went to work, snapping levers, pushing buttons. There was no answering alteration in their course. ‘What’s the matter?’ Dane was enough of a flitter pilot himself to know that the craft was now acting as it if were locked on automatics, on a set course, and that the ranger could not break to hand control. |
| blaster n. | 1953 Star Rangers Prologue 10 They had beaten off the Greenies’ rush after the ship’s nose blaster had gone dead on them. |
| cold sleep n. | 1954 Stars are Ours (1955) 44 The formula for the ‘cold sleep’… We go to sleep, hibernate, during that trip—or else the ship comes to its port manned by dust! |
| disruptor n. | 1953 Last Planet (1955) 51 They set off at dusk, rations and bedrolls strapped under the single seat remaining in the stripped-down sled. And with the bedrolls was the single disruptor they had left. |
| esper n. | 1968 Zero Stone (1977) v. 68 No man can laugh at the idea of esper powers, as the so-called enlightened once did. |
| esper n. | 1970 Dread Companion (1980) 24 He shook his head, his frown deeper. ‘No, it is true—how could you have known? The matter was only reported to me this morning after the flitter was found. Only a few knew it. But how did she know? Is she esper?’ His suggestion was logical, though I had never known so young an esper to be able to hide such power. |
| flitter n. | 1955 Sargasso of Space (1957) 53 The small flitters carried by the Queen for exploration work held with comfort a two-man crew—with crowding, three. |
| hive mind n. | 1957 Star Born (1966) 39 All the buildings were the same shape and size… Raf wondered if those who had built them had not been humanoid at all, but perhaps insects with a hive mind. |
| homeworld n. | 1953 Star Rangers iv. 52 Rolth used a palm disrupter as lightly as a color brush to etch into its side the name, homeworld, and the rank of that thin wasted body they had laid to rest there. |
| humanoid adj. | 1953 Star Rangers xv. 195 But that is a humanoid characteristic, I believe. |
| mind control n. | 1967 Wizard’s World in Worlds of If June 22/1 The Esper plastered himself to the heaving body. For the moment he made no attempt at mind control. |
| mind-control v. | 1974 Iron Cage xvii. 259 But I didn’t know about the helmet, except that you could not mind-control him if he wore it. I didn’t know they could! |
| mind-controlled adj. | 1965 X Factor 178 What has happened, a time twist? Or are we now mind-controllled? |
| mind shield n. | 1967 Wizard's World in Worlds of If June 20/2 The Esper went back, holding a mind shield as a frail protection. |
| needle v. | 1953 Star Rangers ii. 39 The longer Smitt needled him in that fashion the more uneasy he became. |
| needler n. | 1961 Star Hunter 32 Chambriss carried a needler, Starns was unarmed except for a small protection stunner, his tri-dee box slung on his chest by well-worn carrying straps. [Ibid. 33] Hume went forward, jerked the needler dart from a tree trunk. ‘But don’t shoot again—not unless you are sure of what you are aiming at!’ |
| non-human n. | 1957 Star Born (1958) 45 And oddly enough it also bothered him to occupy a post which earlier had served not a nonhuman such as Sssuri, whom he admired, but a humanoid whom he had been taught from childhood to avoid—if not fear. |
| off-world adj. | 1955 Star Guard (1973) 140 There is a space port near the Venturi holdings at Po'ult… There is no regular schedule of ships, but off-world traders do come. |
| off-world adj. | 1969 Postmarked Stars (1980) 10 He was Dane Thorson, acting cargo master of the Queen because Van Ryke, his superior, was off-world and would join them only at the end of this voyage. |
| offworld adv. | 1955 Star Guard (1973) 49 Nature had provided him with a coat of thick curly hair, close in texture to the wool of a sheep, from which came a pungent, oily odor only apparent to those from off world. |
| offworld adv. | 1961 Catseye (1962) 7 He could try to exist without subcitizenship and a work permit, haunting the Casual Labour Centre to compete with too many of his fellows for the very limited crumbs of employment; he could somehow raise the stiff entrance fee and buy his way into the strictly illegal but flourishing and perilous Thieves' Guild; or he could sign on as contract labour and be shipped off world in deep freeze with no beforehand knowledge of his destination or work. |
| offworld adv. | 1970 Dread Companion 16 In any event, I returned to the crèche well enough pleased with the bargain Lazk Volk had aided me to, prepared to cut ties with my old life and lift off-world to a new. |
| offworlder n. | 1957 Star Born 187 It might be easy, now that he had established mental contact with this off-worlder, for the other to pick up a thought as vivid as that. |
| planet v. | 1969 Toys of Tamisan in Worlds of If Apr. 26/2 First things first; the ship had not yet planeted. But when it came she must make sure that she was among those who were preparing for its welcome. |
| planet v. | 1953 Star Rangers ii. 23 That was the correct official order to be given when the ship planeted. |
| planetman n. | 1976 Perilous Dreams in Deadly Dreams (2011) 188 One does not disturb a dreamer. It would be dangerous for both your planetman and the dreamer herself. |
| planetside adj. | 1955 Sargasso of Space ii. 22 The voyage to Naxos was routine. And the frontier world where they set down at its end was enough like Terra to be unexciting too. Not that Dane got any planet-side leave. |
| planetside adj. | 1968 Zero Stone (1977) 140 Though they wore the conventional planetside dress of any crewmen, coveralls and boots, those had no insignia on breast or collar. |
| plastiskin n. | 1954 The Stars Are Ours! 133 Dard…had his bite sterilized and bandaged with plasta[-]skin. |
| ray v. | 1968 Zero Stone 12 I caught a second man reaching for Vondar. But the one already struggling with him I dared not ray, lest I get my master too. |
| Rigellian n. 1 | 1997 Mind for Trade (1998) xxiii. 247 ‘Off to the next port,’ Van Ryke repeated, and then he said with mock solemnity, ‘so don’t use up all that energy. You’ll be working up a fine sweat when we tackle moving cargo over to the Star.’ ‘Rigelians don’t sweat!’ she said, whistling a laugh. |
| Rigellian n. 2 | 1997 Mind for Trade (1998) viii. 83 ‘No!’ Tooe’s voice was shrill. ‘No good!’ And she talked on in rapid Rigelian, mixing in what sounded to Rip like a few words of the Tathi language. Rip saw Dane frown in concentration. The cargo master’s understanding of Rigelian, after weeks of talking with Tooe, was as good as hers of Terran—or nearly. But he seldom spoke in the difficult, hissing language. |
| Rigellian adj. | 1997 Mind for Trade (1998) ix. 92 She tweeted her thanks, and turned back to the climb, her crest flattened out in concentration-and-effort mode. Noting it, Dane enjoyed a private grin. There was no psi connection with his little Rigelian apprentice, but he didn’t need one. That flexible webbed crest, and her expressive whistles and chirps, made her emotions clear enough. As they rounded the last of the outcropping of rock and walked across a wide, flattened area, he wondered if she was even capable of hiding her reactions. |
| scanner n. | 1953 Star Rangers ii. 24 Fylh had triggered the scanner and it should be recording as they flew. |
| Sol n. 1 | 1953 Star Rangers (1985) 198 ‘Terra of Sol.’ He read it aloud and the three words seemed to echo more loudly down the hall than any of the shouted names of the kindred stars. ‘Terra of Sol—man’s beginning!’ |
| space-born adj. 1 | 1969 Uncharted Stars 47 His age was noted as problematical, since he had been space-born. |
| spacegram v. | 2004 Beast Master’s Circus x. 170 Storm rode the basin lands and the ranch had never been so meticulously run. Tani spent time spacegramming her aunt and uncle. Kady and Brion had contacts in strange places. And it could be surprising what unworldly scientists sometimes learned. |
| space lane n. | 1953 Star Rangers 271 Maybe there has been a rebellion in this sector. The winner may be systematically mopping up all Patrol bases. That would leave him free to rule the space lanes as he pleases. |
| space pirate n. | 1953 Star Rangers Prologue 7 Space pirates raised flags and recruited fleets to gorge on spoil plundered from this wreckage. |
| space tan n. | 1970 Dread Companion (1984) 140 The skin of his hands and face was very dark, the space tan of a starfarer, but on the less exposed parts of his body it was ivory-white. |
| starfarer n. | 1970 Dread Companion (1984) 140 The skin of his hands and face was very dark, the space tan of a starfarer, but on the less exposed parts of his body it was ivory-white. |
| stargate n. | 1958 (title) Star Gate. |
| star lane n. | 1953 Star Rangers 280 Shall we rise again to be the lords of space and the rangers of the star lanes? |
| stun gun n. | 1953 Star Rangers v. 69 Wonder what they would have thought of a stun gun. |
| stunner n. | 1961 Star Hunter 32 Chambriss carried a needler, Starns was unarmed except for a small protection stunner, his tri-dee box slung on his chest by well-worn carrying straps. |
| suit n. | 1968 Zero Stone (1969) 61 There was another opening at the end of this space, giving entrance directly to the lock, saving time when one must suit or unsuit in leaving or entering the ship. I ran my hand along the rack of suits, striving to find one enough my size to be, if not comfortable, usable. |
| Terra n. | 1953 Star Rangers xvi. 207 Terra calling. |
| tri-D n. | 1961 Catseye (1962) 33 The animal in the tri-dee was clearly depicted life-size, the usual procedure for smaller beasts. |
| tri-D n. | 1970 Dread Companion (1984) 10 Now—I want a run-through of the Ruhkarv report in comparison with the tridees from Xcothal. Ibid. 183 Kosgro switched the three through the air and thrust in and out with them as I had seen swords used in tridee tapes made on primitive worlds. |
| tri-D n. | 1961 Star Hunter 32 Chambriss carried a needler, Starns was unarmed except for a small protection stunner, his tri-dee box slung on his chest by well-worn carrying straps. |
| unhuman n. | 1953 Star Rangers xv. 192 Even Smitt and Dalgre, for all their inborn suspicion not only of unhumans but also of sensitives, had fallen under the spell of the urbane charm. |
| unsuit v. | 1968 Zero Stone (1969) 61 There was another opening at the end of this space, giving entrance directly to the lock, saving time when one must suit or unsuit in leaving or entering the ship. I ran my hand along the rack of suits, striving to find one enough my size to be, if not comfortable, usable. |