C. L. Moore

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blowup n. | 1945 | Piper’s Son in Astounding Science-Fiction Feb. 19/1 If he had been born before the Blowup, it might have been different. Impossible to say. One could read history, but one couldn’t live it.
offworld adv. | 1943 | Judgment Night in Astounding Science-Fiction Aug. 11/2 The emperor was silent, looking at her from under his brows. After a slightly uncomfortable pause, the girl turned away. ‘I'm leaving,’ she said briefly. ‘Where?’ ‘Off-world.’
psychohistorian n. | 1945 | Piper’s Son in Astounding Science-Fiction Feb. 23/2 I’m trying to look at it from the angle of psychohistorian. If there’d been telepaths in the past, things might have been different.
spaceway n. | 1933 | Shambleau in Weird Tales Nov. 539/2 He heard the gossip of the spaceways, news from a dozen planets of a thousand different events; he heard the latest joke about the Venusian Emperor and the latest report on the Chino-Aryan war and the latest song hot from the lips of Rose Robertson, whom every man on the civilized planets adored as ‘the Georgia Rose’.
videophone v. | 1945 Life 9 Apr. 109/1 (advt.) From sound-proof booth, passengers may video-phone anywhere while train is moving. |