H. Beam Piper
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collapsium n. | 1958 | Graveyard of Dreams in Galaxy Science Fiction Feb. 132/1 Gehenna of a big crop. Priceβll drop like a brick of collapsium, and this time next year weβll be using brandy to wash our feet in!
off-planet adv. | 1953 | Ullr Uprising in Space Science Fiction Feb. 6/1 People came to Niflheim, and worked the mines and uranium refineries and chemical plants, but they did so inside power-driven and contragravity-lifted armor, and they lived on artificial satellites two thousand miles off-planet.
precog v. | 1948 | Police Operation in Astounding Science Fiction July 17/2 We exist perpetually at all moments within our life-span; our extraphysical ego component passes from the ego existing at one moment to the ego existing at the next. During unconsciousness, the EPC is 'time-free'; it may detach, and connect at some other moment, with the ego existing at that time-point. Thatβs how we precog. We take an autohypno and recover memories brought back from the future moment and buried in the subconscious mind.
sapience n. | 1962 | Little Fuzzy 44 I think he wants to trick some of our people into supporting his sapience claims.
time crime n. | 1955 | in Astounding Science Fiction Feb. 8 (title) Time Crime.