Mercedes Lackey

dirtsider n.	1992 A. McCaffrey & M. Lackey Ship Who Searched i. 2 He decided to get married, raise a brood of his own, and settle down as a dirtsider.
energy gun n.	2012 D. Lee & M. Lackey She Blinded Me With Science in C. Martin et al. World Divided x. 154 All she could see through the fog and the pain were the open mouths. She couldn’t see the relatively tiny muzzle of the energy gun.
space armor n.	1992 A. McCaffrey & M. Lackey Ship Who Searched iii. 74 It looked like his legs and waist were encased in the bottom half of space armor!
space-going adj.	1992 A. McCaffrey & M. Lackey Ship Who Searched i. 2 That had given him a window of opportunity for a little shore leave, in a base-town that catered to some fairly heavy space-going traffic, and he had taken it.
tanstaafl n.	1989 M. Lackey Burning Water 157 TANSTAAFL, my friend. ‘There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.’ Magical energy has to come from somewhere.