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Arcturan n. 1	1974 ‘K. Trout’ Venus on the Half-Shell 12 It was when an Arcturan praised that Earthmen became offended. The Arcturan would lift one of his tripods and spray the praisee with a liquid that smelled like rotten onions.
biotech n.	1960 P. J. Farmer Heel in Worlds of If May 86/1 Achilles will seem to be dead but will actually be in a state of suspended animation. We’ll sneak his body at night from the funeral pyre and substitute a corpse. A bio-tech who owes me a favor will fix up the face of a dead Trojan or Greek to look like Achilles’. When this epic is done and we’re ready to leave Earth, you can run away.
colony planet n.	1957 P. J. Farmer Night of Light in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction June 25/2 So what if my prints are filed? They won’t be cross-checked; they’ll just be those of some immigrant, who was born on a colony-planet and who is being recorded for the first time.
empathist n.	1952 P. J. Farmer Lovers in Startling Stories Aug. 61/2 We empathists can put ourselves into somebody else’s nervous system and think and feel as they do.
gate n.	1966 P. J. Farmer Gates of Creation (1975) 9 Then he would have to find the gate that would give entrance to the pocket universe.
Mercutian n. 1	1964 P. J. Farmer Tongues of the Moon (1970) 80 If they decide to battle, they will have to deal not only with us but with the Ganymedans and Mercutians.
Mercutian adj.	1961 P. J. Farmer Tongues of the Moon in Amazing Stories Sept. 16/2 ‘I haven’t time or ability to think straight now. But I have thought of this. Earth could be wiped out. If so, we on the Moon are the only human beings left alive in the universe. And...’ ‘There are the Martian colonies. And the Ganymedan and Mercutian bases.’
planetside adv.	1955 P. J. Farmer Father in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction July 4/1 He posed monolithic in his sky-blue uniform that had not changed since the Twenty-First Century. Though it was well known that he felt a little ridiculous when he wore it planet-side, when he was on his ship he walked as a man clad in armor.
pocket universe n.	1966 P. J. Farmer Gates of Creation (1975) 9 Then he would have to find the gate that would give entrance to the pocket universe.
pocket universe n.	1970 P. J. Farmer Behind Walls of Terra 4 Kickaha had been transmitted into an artificial universe, a pocket universe, created by a Lord named Jadawin.
pseudopod n.	1977 P. J. Farmer Dark Design xlix. 281 Somehow, without being aware of it, he had spun around and was facing the owner of the voice. It was a shadowy figure in the clouds swirling in the pilothouse. It moved toward him, stopped, and reached out a vague arm. A pseudopod flicked a switch on the panel.
sapient n.	1960 P. J. Farmer A Woman a Day vi. 30 The CWC might be utilizing the sapients because they possessed powers or advantages Terrestrials did not have.
sentient n.	1965 P. J. Farmer Maker of Universes iii. 34 The merpeople and the sentients who lived on the beach often hitched rides on these creatures, steering them by pressure on exposed nerve centers.
spacefaring adj.	1953 P. J. Farmer Strange Compulsion in Science Fiction Plus Oct. 60/1 Once the quarantine had been clamped down and all the space-faring Remohs located and examined, Gaulers went to work.
spacer n. 2	1957 P. J. Farmer Green Odyssey (1976) 154 I would like to know if you can pilot that spacer and if it’s in operating condition.
Tau Cetan n.	1971 P. J. Farmer To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1975) iv. 21 The being—the Tau Cetan!—talked so pragmatically, so sensibly, that he provided an anchor to which Burton could tie his senses before they drifted away again. And, despite the repulsive alienness of the creature, he exuded a friendliness and an openness that warmed Burton. Moreover, any creature that came from a civilization which could span many trillions of miles of interstellar space must have very valuable knowledge and resources.
tri-D n.	1960 P. J. Farmer A Few Miles in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Oct. 107/2 What a panic that would create! People running to stare at this monster seen now only on tridi or in the zoo!
unsuit v.	1964 P. J. Farmer Tongues of Moon 93 ‘Take off your suit. Then come in with your hands over your head.’ Without waiting for the man to finish unsuiting, Broward took the scout out of the port and away towards Mars.