Arthur Leo Zagat
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| alien n. | 1931 Venus Mines, Incorporated in Wonder Stories Aug. 307/1 Arnim and Britt watched the ten-foot tall aliens stride across the short stretch of deck to the entrance lock of their own vessel. Around the waist of each a studded belt was clamped, its excresences showing where the individual gravity coils were inserted. Were it not for these the Martians would have been rising a hundred feet with each step, so small was the asteroid’s attraction. |
| blast-off n. | 1937 Cavern of Shining Pool in Thrilling Wonder Stories Oct. 70/1 ‘Make it so, mister,’ I acknowledged in the unforgotten jargon. ‘Stand by for the blast-off.’ Not for nothing had I conned the plans of this latest product of the spaceship engineers, assuaging nostalgia in vicarious flight. |
| disruptor n. | 1931 Emperor of the Stars in Wonder Stories Apr. 1216/2 The disruptor rays had absolutely no effect upon these creatures. Matter was differently constituted here—earth forces were unable to break up these atoms. All was lost! |
| disruptor n. | 1931 Emperor of the Stars in Wonder Stories Apr. 1216/2 In great waves the green terrors advanced. Desperately the men searched about for some opening, some gap through which to seek escape. There was none. Enringed, they stood at bay, defenseless, now that the disruptor tubes, potent weapons of destruction on earth, were useless. |
| otherspace n. | 1937 Cavern of the Shining Pool in Thrilling Wonder Stories Oct. 78/2 ‘There it is, straight ahead. Look.’ And so it was, shimmering discreetly, a vague intangible veil across the black curtain of this other-space. |
| out-planet n. | 1943 Venus Station in Science Fiction Stories Apr. 21/1 I’ve run into happenstances before, on the Out-Planets, that didn’t seem to make sense. |
| Sol n. 1 | 1931 Emperor of the Stars in Wonder Stories Apr. 1229/2 There’s Orion, there’s Cassiopeia, there’s Lyra, there’s Old Sol! We're home again. |
| space cadet n. | 1943 Sunward Flight in Super Science Stories Feb. 98/1 That hatch may open again, however, at your word, to return you to Earth. I rest it on your honor as space cadets that if it should, what I say to you now will remain within the hull of the Aldebaran. |
| suit n. | 1931 Emperor of the Stars in Wonder Stories Apr. 1215/1 By this time he had donned the suit; only the helmet was not yet clamped into position. |
| thought screen n. | 1931 Back to 20,000 A.D. in Wonder Stories Mar. 1132/2 He invented a thought screen that, when worn, effectually shields the wearer from intrusion into his private thoughts. |
| thought shield n. | 1931 Back to 20,000 A.D. in Wonder Stories Mar. 1143/2 You see, I was wearing the thought-shield, and according to my experience and the explanation of Arkon, no least thought vibration should escape through the barrier of its field. |
| thought shield n. | 1931 Back to 20,000 A.D. in Wonder Stories Mar. 1146/1 ‘Weren’t you afraid the Jed would know of your plans by reading your thoughts, and destroy you?’ Sid laughed. ‘A fine reporter you are. Blind as a bat. Look!’ I stared at him again, and was never more shamed in my life. For, encircling his forehead, plain for all to see, was—a thought-shield. So befuddled had I been that in all this time I had not noticed this obvious adornment on the heads of all who were congregated there. |
| time warp n. | [1930 In 20,000 A.D.! in Wonder Stories Sept. 314/1 (footnote) Jenkins had evidently fallen into a warp in space. The Vanishing Wood was a pucker—a fault, we might say, borrowing a geologic term—in the curvature of space. Through this warp he had been thrown clear out of our three dimensions into a fourth dimension. There he slid in time over the other side of the ridge or pucker, into the same spot in the three-dimensional world, but into a different era in time. Notice that he had not traveled an inch in space; all his journeying had been purely in time.] |
| visiscreen n. | 1937 Cavern of Shining Pool in Thrilling Wonder Stories Oct. 70/2 I saw, in the visi-screen, the blackness of space, the wide-spread panoply of stars infinite in distance and number that I had thought never to set my eyes upon again, and the ominous shimmer of the ether eddy, straight ahead. |
| visor screen n. | 1931 Revolt of the Machines in Astounding Stories July 91/2 An oval visor-screen with its flitting images brought across space the area the switches controlled. |
| warp n. | [1930 In 20,000 A.D.! in Wonder Stories Sept. 314/1 (footnote) Jenkins had evidently fallen into a warp in space. The Vanishing Wood was a pucker—a fault, we might say, borrowing a geologic term—in the curvature of space. Through this warp he had been thrown clear out of our three dimensions into a fourth dimension. There he slid in time over the other side of the ridge or pucker, into the same spot in the three-dimensional world, but into a different era in time. Notice that he had not traveled an inch in space; all his journeying had been purely in time.] |