Randall Garrett
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| Cerean adj. | 1962 His Master’s Voice in Analog Science Fact -> Science Fiction Mar. 30/1 Inside, thousands of tiny, faceted, plastic gems are kept constantly in motion by forced air currents, swirling up and down the inside of the transparent column—easy enough to do under Cerean gravity. Each spinning gem, scarcely larger than a pinhead, catches the light and scatters it around the room. It’s a sort of macroscopic Tyndall effect that is quite impressive. |
| dropshaft n. | 1957 Devil’s World in Imaginative Tales July 84/2 He caught the dropshaft and spun downward to the ground level. There, he entered the lock and donned a breathingsuit. |
| galactic n. 1 | 1963 A World by the Tale in Analog Science Fact–Science Fiction Oct. 1 As far as the Galactics were concerned, Earth was a little backwater planet that was of no importance. Nothing manufactured on the planet was of any use to Galactics. |
| geas n. | 1964 Case of Identity in Analog Science Fact–Science Fiction Sept. 30/2 Well, Lord Darcy, to put it in layman’s terms, a powerful spell is placed upon the affected person—a geas, it’s called—which forces them to limit their activities to those which are not dangerous to his fellow man. |
| home sun n. | 1954 Time Fuze in Worlds of If Mar. 70/2 A little more than half a light year from Sol, when the ship reached the point where its occupants could see the light that had left their home sun more than seven months before, they watched it become suddenly, horribly brighter. |
| insectoidal adj. | 1956 Promised Land in Astounding Science Fiction Aug. 29/2 The Mountains of the Morning were barren—devoid of all life except lichen and small insectoidal creatures. |
| light n. 1 | 1954 Time Fuze in If Mar. 68/2 The ship had only been provisioned to go to Alpha Centauri, scout the system without landing on any of the planets, and return. At ten lights, top speed for the ultradrive, it would take better than three months to get back. |
| planet-wide adv. | 1970 Fimbulsommer in Worlds of If Sept.–Oct. 20/2 Some local change could affect the area for a year or two but anything that drastic, over that long a period of time, would have to be planetwide as far as I can tell. |
| Rigellian n. 2 | [1957 Hungry World in Imaginative Tales Mar. 105/2 There was a chattering hiss behind him. It was, Mike knew, the sibilant language of the Rigellian natives.] |
| Sirian n. 1 | 1961 Random Choice in Fantastic Mar. 47/1 ‘Oh, the ship is definitely slowing down,’ said the Sirian. |
| superspace n. | 1954 Time Fuze in Worlds of If Mar. 69/2 What we know about the hyperspace, or superspace, or whatever it is we move through in ultradrive is almost nothing. |
| teleport n. 2 | 1960 Occasion for Disaster in Analog Science Fact & Fiction Nov. 41/2 He’d found telepaths in insane asylums, and teleports among the juvenile delinquents of New York. |
| teleporter n. 1 | 1960 Out Like a Light in Astounding Science Fact & Fiction June 153/2 It doesn’t do much good to know where a teleporter is, Malone thought. But it’s extremely handy to know where he’s going to be. And if you also know what he plans to do when he gets where he’s going, you've got an absolute lead-pipe cinch to work with. |
| thionite n. | 1956 Heist Job on Thizar in Amazing Stories Oct. 22/2 Belgezad had already suffered at the hands of Anson Drake. Some years before, a narcotics gang had been smashed high, wide, and handsome on Thizar. Three men had died from an overdose of their own thionite drug, and fifty thousand credits of illicit gain had vanished into nowhere. The Thizarian police didn’t know who had done the job, and they didn’t know who had financed the ring. |
| time crime n. | 1956 Trip to Anywhen in Amazing Stories 110/2 When time travel was invented, a whole new set of laws was promulgated to cover it. One such law is this: time crime cannot be punished by my own century. Time crime must always be tried and punished by the laws of the century visited. |
| ultradrive n. | 1954 Time Fuze in Worlds of If Mar. 68/2 The ship had only been provisioned to go to Alpha Centauri, scout the system without landing on any of the planets, and return. At ten lights, top speed for the ultradrive, it would take better than three months to get back. |
| vibroblade n. | 1962 Unwise Child (1963) 14 A vibroblade is a nasty weapon. Originally designed as a surgeon’s tool, its special steel blade moves in and out of the heavy hilt at speeds from two hundred to two thousand vibrations per second, depending on the size and the use to which it is to be put. |
| visiphone n. | 1963 Impossibles 112 He inclined his head in as courtly a bow as he could manage over a visiphone. ‘I am deeply honored,’ he said, ‘that Your Majesty has called on me. Is there any way in which I might be of service?’ |
| xenologist n. | 1960 Mercenaries Unlimited in Fantastic Universe Feb. 40/2 A small, wiry man named Dr. Theodore Reiner had been hobnobbing with certain members of the New Boston Academy of Sciences, concentrating mainly on friendships with archeologists [sic], xenologists, and linguists. |