Otto Binder
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| beam weapon n. | 1939 Prison of Time in Dynamic Science Stories May 29/2 Earth could use your great science… And your marvellous anti-gravity ships and beam-weapon, in the war! If we had your help, we would win! |
| earth people n. | 1935 The Robot Aliens in Wonder Stories Feb. 1056/2 The Robot Alien managed to convey to me that they were astonished beyond all measure at the fear the earth-people showed from the first. |
| midspace n. | 1932 The First Martian in Amazing Stories Oct. 656/2 Of course, the shape of a rocket-ship does not matter in the least out in mid-space. |
| mind-controlled adj. | 1938 Life Eternal in Thrilling Wonder Stories Feb. ii. 73/2 Anton York willed himself out of his hypnotic state of bodily suspension. Mind-controlled relays turned on the various mechanisms that supplied heat, air, and artificial gravity. |
| port n. | 1939 Flight of Starshell in Thrilling Wonder Stories Feb. 57/1 The Starshell plunged on, negotiating the black gulf between Mars and Earth in rapid time. It had been several weeks since she had left her first port, Saturn’s outer moon. |
| Rhean n. | 1947 Ring Bonanza in Startling Stories July 62/1 The other is—oh, thank the stars!—it’s early Rhean, which is a language we know! |
| Rhean adj. | 1939 Where Eternity Ends in Science Fiction June 13/2 He was ushered finally into the presence of Marten Crodell, in a small room faintly redolent with the exotic perfume of Rhean horticulture. |
| Rhean adj. | 1937 Diamond Planetoid in Astounding Stories May 102/2 He looked like a gigantic black frog in the dull Saturn shine. Feeling suddenly quite alone, Welton fished with the radio receiver for something to relieve the dead silence…. The sputter of static gave way to music from a Rhean station. |
| space travel n. | 1937 Conquest of Life in Thrilling Wonder Stories Aug. 30/2 Ten years of research on liquid and solid rocket fuels had convinced him space travel would not be achieved by that clumsy, wasteful means. |
| sub-ether n. | 1936 Static in Thrilling Wonder Stories Dec. 40/1 ‘It is easy enough,’ he began as the spy listened, ‘to transmit through the ether forms of high frequency energy, but the power loss is tremendous. My approach to the problem was to discover a new medium of transmission—the sub-ether.’ |
| superhero n. | 1958 in Adventure Apr. (front cover) Featuring ‘The Legion of Super-Heroes’. |
| superhero n. | 1958 in Adventure Apr. 3 (in figure) You would be the greatest super-hero of us all! |
| super-weapon n. | 1937 Conquest of Life in Thrilling Wonder Stories Aug. 39/1 ‘Haven’t they had enough of it?’ he cried. ‘They fought like beasts for a decade just thirty years ago. I was tempted then to reveal my super-weapon and let them butcher one another to nothingness. I am tempted now.’ |
| telepathize v. | 1937 Queen of Skies in Astounding Stories Nov. vii. 101/1 And now I will speak as well as telepathize, for the benefit of the two surface men who are here with me. |
| time loop n. | 1936 The Time Entity in Astounding Stories Oct. 76/2 Memory is another abstract quality hard to define, unless one thinks of reliving every instant over and over as often as the time loop curls back on itself. Why do we remember some things in our childhood vividly, and forget other events completely a week after hamppening? Simply—yet not so simply—because the successive loops of time are overlapping in places, far apart in others. |
| time-warping adj. | 1941 Adam Link in the Past in Amazing Stories Feb. 65/2 Its method of moving my ship physically was a by-product of the time[-]warping engine. By slipping the ship a few minutes or hours back in time—in relation to the daily clock—I moved westward. In effect, the Earth rotated under me. |
| time-warping adj. | [1936 Spawn of Eternal Thought in Astounding Science Fiction May 151/2 He wished too that he might adapt his fourth-dimensional infinite velocity principle to the beam—that space-time warping form of energy which had given him instant contact with his ten-brain unit.] |
| Titanian adj. | 1939 Impossible World in Startling Stories Mar. vii. 41 After a stop at the Titanian docks for fuel and replacements of their emptied oxygen tanks, the ETBI-14 and its Ranger convoy lumbered for wayward lapetus. |
| Uranian n. | 1937 Blue Beam of Pestilence in Amazing Stories Dec. 117/2 We have busied ourselves…promoting the migrations of the Uranians to other planets in an attempt to save them from annihilation. [Ibid. 131/1] But these dissensions of the Empire had no counterpart in the warships. Here Martian and Venerian, Uranian and Mercurian, had but one common goal—one aim—to vanquish the enemy. |
| vac-suit n. | 1938 Wayward World in Astounding Stories Feb. 110/1 It was too much fun seeing you wabble out in a vac-suit, like a sea-diver diving in a dry Martian seabottom. |
| vac-suited adj. | 1939 Impossible World in Startling Stories Mar. 19/1 The rest of the men struggled into their vac-suits of neo-rubber. The two pilots helped them clamp the neck fittings of their helmets and clipped oxygen bottles to their belts…. Finally the eight vac-suited figures clumped out with their lead-weighted shoes and the air-lock hissed shut behind them. |
| vacuum-suited adj. | 1937 Diamond Planetoid in Astounding Stories May 108/2 ‘Archie, for John’s sake, get away—anywhere but there!’ Osgood’s vacuum-suited figure lumbered away from the diamond ’toid, as though he had heard. |