Sam Merwin, Jr.
6 Quotations from Sam Merwin, Jr.
| disintegrator n. | 1951 House of Many Worlds in Startling Stories Sept. 33/1 At that moment an officer appeared and struck down the disintegrator…before it could be fired again. |
| earth person n. | 1953 Nightmare Tower in Fantastic Universe June–July 37/1 No other Earth-person has ever been able to make the grade. |
| Ganymedian n. 2 | 1953 Arbiter in Thrilling Wonder Stories Aug. 106/1 He spoke the interplanetary Lingua Franca—a blend of English, Spanish, Russian, German, Hindu and Chinese, with more recent elements of Venerian, Martian and Ganymedean. |
| gravitied adj. 1 | 1953 Arbiter in Thrilling Wonder Stories Aug. 107/2 Competition with lighter-gravitied Mars and Ganymede is far too tight to cut payloads for more fuel. |
| overdrive n. | 1951 Milords Methuselah in Thrilling Wonder Stories Apr. 95/1 Mike was then a hot young pilot-engineer, one of the first half dozen space pilots to master the intricacies of the rediscovered overdrive that enabled men once more to visit the stars through travel faster than light in the dead greyness of subspace. |
| space vessel n. | 1953 Nightmare Tower in Fantastic Universe June–July 23/1 She looked around but failed to see his tall figure and saturnine face—treacherous face, she thought—among the half-dozen passengers already reclining in plastolounges, watching the amazing panorama projected on the ceiling from the viewplate recorders in the prow and stern of the huge space-vessel. |