Edward H. Hinton
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Callistan adj. | 1933 | Monsters of Callisto in Wonder Stories Oct. 199/1 For some little time the attraction of the little planet had made us independent of our gravity lines. As soon as we should enter the Callistan heaviside layer, the retractible helicopter screws would be broken out to oppose the gravitational pull, so that under the single influence of magnetic attraction we should drift downward in a bee line to our berth in Nunei. And it was in that moment of my premature self-congratulation that I had the first inkling of disaster.