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alternate history n.	1992 M. Resnick Alternate Presidents Introd. p. ix Contrary to popular belief, science fiction does not necessarily have to look to the future to ask the question. A growing sub-genre of the field is the Alternate History story: what if Jesus had never lived, what if the Spanish Armada had destroyed the British fleet, what if the South had won the Civil War?
Callistan adj.	1994 M. Resnick Stop Press in Alien Pregnant by Elvis What is so newsworthy about President Meacham having an affair with a Neptunian? My own wife is an egg-laying seven-limbed Mercurian porble, and I take extreme umbrage at your pedestrian notion that there is something unsavory about interspecies romance. More to the point, President Meacham has already admitted to youthful indiscretions with a Tritonian sea-slug and a Callistan muuda-muuda, and in fact was once married to an ammonia-breathing trisexual marsupial native of Alpha Centauri III when she served as our ambassador to that troubled world.
eyetracks n.	2004 M. Resnick Travels with My Cats in Asimov’s Science Fiction Feb. 17 I’d read all my other books so often you could almost see the eyetracks all over them.
fan v.	2002 M. Resnick What It Takes to Be a Worldcon Guest of Honor in Noreascon 4 Progress Report 1 (Jan.) 6/2 As for Jack Speer, he attended the very first Worldcon back in 1939, wrote a history of fandom, and has been fanning ever since.
filk singer n.	1999 M. Resnick Worldcon Memories (Part 3) in Mimosa (#24) Aug. 16/1 This was the biggest, longest masquerade in history. This was before the 60-second limitation (and may well have been the catalyst for it). It seemed like every filksinger in the world went in costume and that each sang his or her entire repertoire. There was a Wizard of Oz group that was not content to sing one song from the film; they had to sing the entire score.
holo n.	1988 M. Resnick Ivory (1989) 57 My doctor doesn’t have to see the man who destroyed his career on the holo every week.
holocam n.	2010 M. Resnick Incarceration of Captain Nebula in Asimov’s Science Fiction Oct.–Nov. 63 I'd have preferred to keep him incarcerated here, and eventually parade him out before the holocams either as a totally defeated prisoner or as drugged ‘convert’.
laser cannon n.	1981 M. Resnick Soul Eater i. 8 He glanced over some of the orders and began estimating what he'd need: a laser cannon, two vibrators, a molecular imploder (if he could get his hands on one somewhere on Northpoint). There'd be the standard hand weapons: the stungun, the screecher, and an old-fashioned laser pistol.
laser pistol n.	1981 M. Resnick Soul Eater i. 8 He glanced over some of the orders and began estimating what he'd need: a laser cannon, two vibrators, a molecular imploder (if he could get his hands on one somewhere on Northpoint). There'd be the standard hand weapons: the stungun, the screecher, and an old-fashioned laser pistol.
Mercurian adj.	2013 M. Resnick In Tombs of Martian Kings in Old Mars 202 The diminutive Mercurian waiter, who was used to him, paid him no attention as he brought Scorpio a drink and continued making his round of the tables.
Mercurian adj.	1994 M. Resnick Stop Press in Alien Pregnant by Elvis 297 Dear Mr. Resnick: What is so newsworthy about President Meacham having an affair with a Neptunian? My own wife is an egg-laying seven[-]limbed Mercurian porble, and I take extreme umbrage at your pedestrian notion that there is something unsavory about inter[-]species romance.
Neptunian adj.	2000 M. Resnick Elephants on Neptune in Asimov’s Science Fiction May 39 ‘Are you African elephants or Indian?’….‘We’re Neptunian elephants,’ they answered.
pleasure planet n.	1999 M. Resnick Hunting the Snark in Asimov’s Science Fiction Dec. 99 Pollard, who would have preferred a few weeks on Calliope or one of the other pleasure planets, finally agreed to come along so that the four of them could celebrate their latest billion together.
port n.	1981 M. Resnick Soul Eater (1992) 10 He remained in port for four days, until all his money for the most recent hunt had been cabled to him, then made preparations to pick up the Baffledivers in the Pinnipes system.
stun gun n.	1981 M. Resnick Soul Eater i. 8 He glanced over some of the orders and began estimating what he'd need: a laser cannon, two vibrators, a molecular imploder (if he could get his hands on one somewhere on Northpoint). There'd be the standard hand weapons: the stungun, the screecher, and an old-fashioned laser pistol.
Tuckerize v.	2002 M. Resnick Chicon 2000 Report in Once a Fan... 89 I was approached by DUFF—the Down Under Fan Fund, that sends a fan to Australia every year—with an interesting request: would I be willing to Tuckerize (i.e., write someone’s name into a story) the high bidder for the right to be Tuckerized By Resnick? I said sure, and a new groom paid $650 for his wife of 6 weeks to be written into a story.
Venusian n. 1	2013 M. Resnick In Tombs of Martian Kings in Old Mars 230 Scorpio marveled once again at how much the Venusian could eat, and how quickly he could digest it.