Alfred Coppel
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| deflector n. | 1949 Runaway in Planet Stories Spring 33/2 In those days no one had ever heard of deflectors, and a free passage through the Belt was a one in a thousand chance. Yet, being young and a bit cocky, I was willing to attribute it to my own spacemanship. |
| Earthside adv. | 1948 Jinx Ship to Rescue in Planet Stories Winter 28/1 Cob was the Aphrodite’s Executive, and he had been with her a full year…which was a record for Execs on the Aphrodite. She generally sent them Earthside with nervous breakdowns in half that time. |
| Earthside adv. | 1949 Captain Midas in Planet Stories Fall 62/1 You are thinking that I'm just an old man, beached earthside, spinning tall tales to impress the youngsters. |
| energy rifle n. | 1950 Last Two Alive! in Planet Stories Nov. 88/2 He…hoisted himself up, crouching in the open lock with the dead Green’s energy rifle, ready to pick off the first Green to come through the door. |
| moon base n. | 1951 Task to Luna in Planet Stories Jan. 56/2 If there were no trouble from the Russki, he would return to his own ship and begin setting up the first cell of what would soon be the Anglo-American Moon Base. As soon as he signalled a safe landing, other rockets would come to add their cells, and presently there would be an atomic rocket pointed dead at the heart of every Russian population center. |
| null-grav n. | 1950 Star Tamer in Super Science Stories Nov. 49/1 Water landings were, after all, SOP in emergencies before the Nullgrav made space-piloting such a lead-pipe cinch for the yokelry. |
| off-world adj. | 1950 Rebel of Valkyr in Planet Stories Fall 8/1 Landor ignored the thrust. ‘Where do you go now, Valkyr?’ ‘Off-world.’ ‘Of course,’ Landor smiled thinly, his eyebrows arching over pale, shrewd eyes. ‘Off-world.’ |
| offworld adv. | 1950 Rebel of Valkyr in Planet Stories Fall 8/1 Landor ignored the thrust. ‘Where do you go now, Valkyr?’ ‘Off-world.’ ‘Of course,’ Landor smiled thinly, his eyebrows arching over pale, shrewd eyes. ‘Off-world.’ |
| outworld adj. | 1950 in Planet Stories Fall 8/2 Men who had stood with a planet for a throne and watched their Empire passing in ordered glory from horizon to horizon across the night sky of Earth—men worshipped as gods on out-world planets, who watched and guided the tide of Empire until it crashed thundering on the shores of ten thousand worlds beyond Vega and Altair. [Ibid.] It was in the next chamber that the out-world warrior paused. |
| space-armored adj. | 1949 Starbusters in Planet Stories Summer 69/1 The blaze of light outlined the two men and the ship and the planetoids within a fifty mile circle and the expanding shock wave fanned out. It struck the two space armored men to send them spinning wildly. |
| spacing n. 1 | 1949 Runaway in Planet Stories Spring 33/1 He was a laconic old soul who loved spacing only a jot better than he loved Martian alky. |
| suit up v. | 1949 Starbusters in Planet Stories Summer 68/2 Strike and Cob Whitley suited up and armed themselves with spring-guns. |
| terrene adj. 2 | 1949 Captain Midas in Planet Stories Fall 65/2 I searched my mind for an explanation. Contra-terrene matter, perhaps, from some distant island universe where matter reacted differently…drawing energy from somewhere, the energy it needed to find stability in its new environment. Stability as a terrene element—wonderfully, miraculously gold! |
| visor screen n. | 1953 Peacemaker in Worlds of If Jan. 74/1 Merril’s face appeared in my visor screen. |