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aircar n.	1970 F. Herbert Whipping Star in Worlds of If Jan. 16/1 ‘Why didn’t you bring us by aircar?’ ‘People here on Cordiality are used to seeing me in a groundcar unless I'm on official business and require speed.’
artificial intelligence n.	1969 F. Herbert Dune Messiah in Galaxy Aug. 129/2 Once they had been guided by an artificial intelligence, computer brains.
atomics n. 2	1964 F. Herbert Dune World in Astounding Science Fiction Jan. 72 Outside of atomics, I know of no explosive powerful enough to destroy an entire worm. They're incredibly tough.
cyborg n.	1966 F. Herbert Heisenberg's Eyes in Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine Aug. 143/1 From the shoulders down, where Glisson’s arms had been, now dangled only the empty linkages for Cyborg prosthetic attachments.
cyborg v.	1985 F. Herbert Chapterhouse: Dune 238 Where did mechanical additions to human flesh become dominant? When was the Cyborg no longer human? Temptations intensified—‘Just this one little adjustment.’ And so easy to adjust until the potpourri-human became unquestioningly obedient. But…Clairby? Conditions of extremis said, ‘Cyborg him!’
groundcar n.	1970 F. Herbert Whipping Star in Worlds of If Jan. 16/1 ‘Why didn’t you bring us by aircar?’ ‘People here on Cordiality are used to seeing me in a groundcar unless I'm on official business and require speed.’
hell planet n.	1965 F. Herbert Dune (1984) I. 196 So here we live out our lives…on this hell-planet.
lasgun n.	1965 F. Herbert Dune 119 Out! Now! This is a command from your Duke! On the double or I’ll cut that crawler apart with a lasgun! [Ibid. 162] Another…followed and stood in the doorway with drawn lasgun. [Ibid. 165] Jessica saw the glint of starlight on a lasgun in his hand.
planet-buster n.	1959 F. Herbert Missing Link in Astounding Science Fiction Feb. 105/2 We're going to take up a tight orbit. Out beyond us will be five transports full of I-A marines and a class IX Monitor with one planet-buster. You're calling the shots, God help you!
plasteel n.	1955 F. Herbert Under Pressure in Astounding Science Fiction Nov. 57/2 What we need is a dielectric as tough as plasteel.
plasteel n.	1965 F. Herbert in Analog Science Fiction/Fact Apr. 111/1 The shafts were about a meter and a half long with glistening plasteel hoods at one end, roughened at the other end for a firm grip.
regeneration tank n.	1962 F. Herbert Mindfield! in Amazing Stories Mar. 28/2 They came out into a laboratory cut deep in the rock…. This was the room where Ren kept he stolen regeneration tank.
shield n.	1963 F. Herbert Dune World in Analog Science Fact–Science Fiction Dec. 33/2 He pulled a shield belt from the table, buckled it fast around his waist.
shield n.	1963 F. Herbert Dune World in Analog Science Fact—Science Fiction Dec. 33/2 ‘One must always remember that the shield turns the fast blow and admits the slow kindjal!’ Paul snapped up the rapier, feinted fast and whipped it back in a slow thrust timed precisely to enter a shield’s mindless defenses.
solar n.	1985 F. Herbert Chapterhouse: Dune 157 Foldspace was a critical economic barrier: How valuable a cargo compared to size and mass? You could spend many Solars moving massive stuff.
stunner n.	1965 F. Herbert in Analog Science Fact—Science Fiction Jan. 24/2 In the flashing instant Hawat had time to see they were Sardaukar, hard faces set in battle frenzy, that they were unshielded and each carried a knife in one hand, a stunner in the other.
unsuited adv.	1966 F. Herbert Destination: Void 137 Goodness and mercy? That was anything which preserved the hope that you could one day walk unsuited beneath an open sky.