Manly Wade Wellman
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| gravitied adj. 1 | 1940 Day of the Conquerors in Thrilling Wonder Stories Jan. 104/2 I am weary of walking on this thrice-gravitied planet. |
| midspace adj. | 1931 Disc-Men of Jupiter in Wonder Stories Sept. 534/2 They passed dozens of asteroids at close quarters, but never close enough to feel gravely threatened. Rapidly they approached the point where they knew the danger of a mid-space collision would be over. |
| rocketport n. | 1931 Disc-Men of Jupiter in Wonder Stories Sept. 528/2 At last, on a clear midnight, the Nonpareil stood upon the metal runway of a rocket port. |
| shapeshifter n. | 1939 These Doth Lord Hate in Weird Tales Jan. 105/1β2 In Bredbur, near Cologne, lived a dozen or more aging men who horrifiedly had seen a captured wolf turn back into their neighbor, the damnable Peter Stumpf. Gilles Grenier, prisoned in a Franciscan friary at Bordeaux, would cheerfully tell any visitor his adventures as a devil-gifted warlock, shape[-]shifter and cannibal. But times and beliefs have changed. |
| spacehand n. | 1938 Men Against Stars in Astounding Science-Fiction June 8/1 In ship No. Fifty-one, half-way from Moon to Mars, four stubbled faces turned to a common, grinning regard as the pounding roar of the rockets died away at last. The skipper, the rocketman, the navigator, the spacehand. |
| space helmet n. | 1931 Disc-Men of Jupiter in Wonder Stories Sept. 544/1 He took the glass-fronted space helmet and adjusted it on Thianaβs head. |