Poul Anderson
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| Anglic n. | 1950 Trespass! in Fantastic Stories Quarterly Spring 133/2 I be—are—am trying to talkest archaic Anglic—Englishk—for the benefit of the Dark Age mind. |
| Betelgeusean n. 2 | 1959 Message in Secret in Fantastic Dec. 32/1 Oleg himself reads only Altaian and the principal Betelgeusean language. |
| Centaurian n. 2 | 1943 Death Sentence in Astounding Science-Fiction Nov. 35/1 But he doesn’t claim to be able to decipher more than portions. He says it is related to ancient Centaurian and I’ve put linguists to work on it. It can be cracked and if his translation isn’t accurate, we’ll know about it. |
| downtime adv. | 1972 There Will Be Time (1973) 51 He would take certain stamps and coins uptime and sell them to dealers; he would go downtime with a few aluminum vessels, which were worth more than gold. |
| dropshaft n. | 1952 Star Plunderer in Planet Stories Sept. 58 We were herded down the long corridors and by way of wooden ladders (the drop-shafts and elevators weren’t working, it seemed) to the cells. |
| farside n. | 1958 We Have Fed Our Sea in Astounding Science Fiction Aug. 24/2 ‘You must go to the Moon quite often.’… Maclaren nodded. ‘Mount Ambarzumian Observatory, on Farside.’ |
| gee n. 2 | 1951 Tiger by the Tail in Planet Stories Jan. 40/2 He was humanoid to a high degree, perhaps somewhat stockier than Terrestrial average—and come to think of it, the artificial gravity was a little higher than one gee—and with very white skin, long tawny hair and beard, and oblique violet eyes. |
| genetic engineer n. | 1954 Big Rain in Astounding Science Fiction Oct. 22/2 Meanwhile giant pulverizers were reducing barren stone and sand to fine particles which would be mixed with fertilizers to yield soil; and the genetic engineers were evolving still other strains of life which could provide a balanced ecology; and the water units were under construction. |
| jump gate n. | 1966 Door to Anywhere in Galaxy Science Fiction Dec. 10/2 ‘Well, Senator, you haff yourself to blame,’ Weninger said with ponderous Teutonic joviality. ‘You fight so hard to keep them from building a jumpgate on Earth. Maybe you change your mind now, eh?’ |
| sailship n. | 1964 Sunjammer in Analog Apr. 19/2 The messages which drew a herdship off her path had always been automatic: beeps from a sailship whose interior sensors had registered trouble. |
| slugthrower n. | 1954 Ghetto in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May 108 A hunting marcat screamed in the night. She shivered…. ‘Local carnivore, Freelady. Don’t let it worry you.’ He slapped his slug[-]thrower, obscurely pleased at a chance to show—what? Manliness? |
| sophont n. | 1966 Trouble Twisters 58 Likewise with the psychology of intelligent species. Most sophonts indeed possess basic instincts which diverge more or less from man’s. With those of radically alien motivations we have little contact. |
| star drive n. | 1948 Genius in Astounding Science Fiction Dec. 25/1 They’ll know the principles of the star drive in a few more generations, and invent a faster-than-light engine almost at once! |
| starfaring adj. | 1960 High Crusade (1982) xiii. 78 Their skirmishes with rival starfaring nations were mostly aerial. |
| sublight adv. | 1966 Sun Invisible in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact Apr. 134/1 They’d also go sublight, and home on the neutrino emission of his power plant. |
| time hopper n. 1 | 1955 Time Patrol in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May 21/1
Everard swung onto the time hopper, set the controls for 464 |
| time patrol n. | 1955 in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May 3 (title) Time Patrol. |
| time war n. | 1950 Flight to Forever in Super Science Stories Nov. 22/2 Among other things they forbade was time travel. But it had never been popular with anyone since the Time War, when a defeated Directorate army had leaped from the twenty-third to the twenty-fourth century and wrought havoc before their attempt at conquest was smashed. |
| uptime adj. | 1972 There Will Be Time (1973) 155 To the greatest extent possible, the earliest traveler recruits were trained into a cadre of recruiters, who wasted no energy in being uptime overlords. |