Donald Moffitt

energy weapon n.	1977 D. Moffitt Jupiter Theft 167 The tubular thing was obviously an energy weapon of some sort.
posthuman n.	1986 D. Moffitt Second Genesis 321 He smiled at Mim and squeezed the hand clasping his. Methuselah pressed against his leg. Humans and posthumans drew closer together to share an ancient tribal comfort.
skyhook n. 4	1986 D. Moffitt Second Genesis 163 ‘The big difference here,’ Jao rushed in, ‘is that Original Man’s skyhook used two tethers, anchored fifty miles apart.’
supernova n.	1977 D. Moffitt Jupiter Theft 254 One of their suns was going to go supernova. And they had half a million years to get ready for it.