Newest Quotations
| Word | Quotation | Date Added |
| neo n. | [1954 The Observation Ward in Psychotic (#9) Mar. (unpaged) I was going to let it go as a neo failing and wait until the second issue showed the promised improvement.] | 2024-10-09 |
| neo n. | 1954 He Writ a Pome in Imagination Apr. 128/2 (letter) It’s a good idea to have a con for neo and non-fen. Sure it’s a good idea to have the actifen out of the thing a little more. But you will admit that the neos and nons are not the supporters of sf. | 2024-10-09 |
| neo n. | 1998 Opuntia (#37.1) Apr. 5/2 Welcome warmly a neo into SF fandom. | 2024-10-09 |
| neo n. | 1992 KatzenJammer in Folly (#17) 18 June 2/1 When I was a neo, BNFs tried all forms of fanac. | 2024-10-09 |
| space burn n. | 2008 Britney’s Labyrinth in Analog Science Fiction & Fact June 14/2 On the vidscreen, Rudolph had a face to mach his nose…cheeks showing the mottled beginnings of lesions that would probably someday need the ministrations of an oncologist. Spaceburn? Or too many days on ozone-damaged sections of Earth? | 2024-09-25 |
| space burn n. | 1937 Raider of the Spaceways in Weird Tales July 64/1 Arn paled beneath his space-burn. | 2024-09-25 |
| space burn n. | 1942 Q Ship of Space in Amazing Stories Jan. 210/1 He was a tall, black-haired, thick-shouldered fellow with a face that bore the leathery black wrinkles of space burn. | 2024-09-25 |
| space burn n. | 1946 For the Public in Astounding Science Fiction Dec. 80/2 He’s got a socialite playboy for a medical officer. He couldn’t tell the difference between simple acne and malignant space burn. | 2024-09-25 |
| space burn n. | 1957 25 Words or Less in Fantastic Universe Apr. 82/1 Do you know how many colonists have died up there? Did you ever hear of space-burn? Space-blindness? Do you know what a meteor strike can do to a man’s lungs? | 2024-09-25 |
| space burn n. | 1964 The HoneyEarthers in Amazing Stories Aug. iii. 20/2 ‘With such brisk blue eyes and such dark-gold tan, you could never seem old to anyone!’…‘That’s spaceburn. Dad used to be a spacer, and spaceburn never fades.’ | 2024-09-25 |
| space burn n. | 1956 Plague Ship ii. 23 His face under its thick layer of space burn was that of an adventurer. | 2024-09-25 |
| space burn n. | 2011 Up Against It xxvii. 359 ‘I only caught a glimpse. A young man, I think. A big white guy with a spaceburned face.’…Ian Carmichael. He was big, white, and blond, a biker with a spaceburn. | 2024-09-25 |
| jump gate n. | 2017 Defiant 243 She has control of the reconstructed jump gate, which allows for travel to the inner empire. [Ibid. 262] Precisely at 0900 Maclintock ordered us to break dock, and we did, proceeding in an orderly manner to the jump gate ring for a trip into the unknown. | 2024-09-20 |
| visiplate n. | 1976 The Tame One in Galileo Sept. 33/2 She brought her wrist up and fingernailed the chron on. The tiny visiplate lit up with the time in Galactic Standard. | 2024-09-20 |
| portal n. | 1970 Crimson Witch in Fantastic Oct. 12/2 Is this the portal to my own world? [Ibid. 13/2] I have to go there. It is there that the portal to my own time line exists. Without it, I must remain here forever. | 2024-09-20 |
| portal n. | 1931 City of Singing Flame in Wonder Stories July 206/1 If I stepped between the columns, could I return to the human sphere by a reversal of my precipitation therefrom? And if so, by what inconceivable beings from foreign time and space had the columns and boulders been established as the portals of a gateway between two worlds? | 2024-09-20 |
| portal n. | 2009 Spellbent (2010) i. 23 How in the name of cold sweat and stomach cramps had we created an intradimensional portal from a simple storm-calling chant? After a couple of beats, my brain shifted out of shock and into more practical questions: Where did the portal lead? I had no clue, but by the look of it, it sure wasn't a beachside resort. | 2024-09-20 |
| portal n. | 2020 Saints of Salvation 491 We have wormholes and portals stretching almost halfway around the galaxy…. We are not and never will be ‘caged in’. Stop thinking in pre-spaceflight terms. | 2024-09-20 |
| portal n. | 1942 Fugitive from Vanguard in Astounding Science-Fiction Jan. 81/2 A mirrored panel slid aside and revealed the lighted interior of the stowaway’s lodgings with a magical effect, as if a four-dimensional portal had opened among the trees into another region of space. | 2024-09-20 |
| portal n. | 1945 Shining Land in Weird Tales May 38/1 Long ago, my people…first went from our world into yours through the Portal my ancestors had learned to open. They first peopled your Earth! [Ibid. 40/2] Let them go back through the Portal to their own world! | 2024-09-20 |
| portal n. | 1969 All Our Yesterdays (Star Trek episode) (transcription) He did not come with us. He was sent through the time portal to another period in history much later than this one. If I am to find him, there is only one possible avenue. Zarabeth, will you show me where the time portal is? | 2024-09-20 |
| portal n. | 1984 Book Reviews in Amazing Stories Sept. 23/1 Nuel is working on a mysterious project that seems to open on alternate realities, but there’s a hitch, and Nuel volunteers to go through the portal and try to fix it from the other side. Once there, he finds a world much like Earth. | 2024-09-20 |
| portal n. | 1957 Combination Calamitous in Authentic Science Fiction Jan. 57 I walked to one side of the machine and stared at the wall directly behind the frame. It was a normal wall and I should have seen it from the front. Instead, I was looking at something right out of this world. There were trees and a rolling plain…. I forgot them as I saw the people.…. ‘Can they see us?’ ‘Only if they look directly at the portal.’ ‘And we can get to them?’ ‘Certainly.… More current is needed in ratio to the mass of the object passing through the portal.’ | 2024-09-20 |
| portal n. | 1934 Land of the Lost in Astounding Stories Jan. 137/1 Portrero, still stumbling, still clutching vainly in air, pitched forward into black shadow and vanished in the nothingness of the dark shaft that was a portal to a waiting world. | 2024-09-20 |
| portal n. | 1940 Tree on Hill in Polaris Sept. i. 5 I went nearer the stone temple, and a huge doorway loomed in front of me. Within that portal were swirling shadows that seemed to dart and leer and try to snatch me inside that awful darkness. I thought I saw three flaming eyes in the shifting void of a doorway, and I screamed with mortal fear. In that noisome depth, I knew, lurked utter destruction—a living hell even worse than death. I screamed again. The vision faded. | 2024-09-20 |
| portal n. | 1990 Themes & Variations in Thrust (#35) Winter 7/2 The girl is still able to pass through a portal in a painted rock into the spirit world. | 2024-09-20 |
| cyborgization n. | 1979 Cyborgs in P. Nicholls Science Fiction Encyclopedia 151/2 The functional cyborg made his first significant appearance in ‘Scanners Live in Vain’ (1950) by Cordwainer Smith. Here cyborgization is designed for space flight, and this particular theme dominates stories of both functional and adaptive cyborgs. [Ibid.] Cyborgization in connection with space travel involves cyborg-spaceship stories such as [etc.]. | 2024-09-18 |
| Earthan adj. | 2018 Record of a Spaceborn Few (2019) 141 Isabel opened her mouth, about to detail the issue—this one had to do with Earthen historical eras, which was always a thorny thing to delineate—but she took one look at Tamsin and changed her mind. [Ibid. 332] Imagine if the Earthen builders had known their descendants would choose to remain in space, that this transitory life satisfied them, even when empty ground lay within reach. What would the human species look like today were that the case? | 2024-09-16 |
| Earthan adj. | 1953 Eyes of Dromu in Famous Fantastic Mysteries Feb. 103/1 And there is the old Earthan suspicion, my friend. We of Dromu are of the solar system, and we have found out what we could about other forms of life in that system. | 2024-09-16 |
| Earthan adj. | 1954 Space Puppet v. 42 Well, she was tall, and dark, and I guess she’d be classed as attractive, in a powerful, intense sort of way. Had a ‘presence’ if you know what I mean. She reckoned to be Earthan, but I wouldn’t like to be sure about that. You can’t always tell. | 2024-09-16 |
| Earthan adj. | 1959 Our Saucer Vacation in Fantastic Universe Dec. 42/1 Earth was as exciting as a basketful of baby grunch, of course. We first surveyed it all from about one-half tentacle of radius, then began to make closer approaches. We would observe Earthan tests of nuclear weapons—the bulletin board back at Center kept us pretty well posted on the when and where of things like that. | 2024-09-16 |
| Earthan adj. | 2014 Lost Planet ii. 18 ‘What’s the capital of Earth?’ ‘Earth?’ ‘Good lords! Earth, your origin planet. You’re Earthan, Chase—come on, you’ve gotta know that.’ | 2024-09-16 |
| Earthan n. | 1972 Day Dark, Night Bright in R. Hoskins Infinity Four 124 The bakery’s trays were only half-filled and there were few Earthans about—sort of odd. | 2024-09-16 |
| Earthan n. | 2014 Lost Planet vii. 86 Like I was telling you before, he’s a Lyolian. A Khatra’s a Fleet vehicle. He can’t be from the Fleet, because even though they call it the Federal Fleet, it’s pretty much run by Earth and only Earthans are allowed to be soldiers. He’s probably a smuggler. | 2024-09-16 |
| Earthan n. | 1929 Vision of Education: Being an Imaginary Verbatim Report of the First Interplanetary Conference 23 Friends, Earthans and our visitors from other planets, this is a great occasion. | 2024-09-16 |
| Earthan n. | 1959 Our Saucer Vacation in Fantastic Universe Dec. 42/2 These Earthans looked like arthritic heptapussies with only four tentacles, the other three either cropped off (ugh!) or twined in a permanent tight knot at the tops of their bodies (double ugh!). When Sis first discovered that the Earthans had bones inside their tentacles she actually took sick! | 2024-09-16 |
| Earthan n. | 1987 Primitives in Amazing Stories Feb. 142 ‘Art,’ he chided. ‘Speak Earthan.’ In my anger, I’d slipped back into Naabutari speech. In fact, when I calmed down a bit it surprised me how much it made my throat hurt to use the polyglot we jokingly called Earthan. I’d gotten unused to it. My own language had become the alien tongue. | 2024-09-16 |
| Earthan n. | 1944 Mongrovian Caravan in Thrilling Wonder Stories Fall 72/2 A moment more, the earthans waited, listening, when Halley called suddenly, ‘Look-out, here they come!’ | 2024-09-16 |
| replicant n. 1 | 2012 The Hunting 57 As far as Strindberg was concerned they weren’t even human. These were just replicants. And like all lab rats, their feelings were not a matter for his concern. | 2024-09-11 |
| widescreen baroque n. | 1973 Billion Year Spree x. 247 The latter novel [sc. Alfred Bester’s The Stars My Destination] in particular is a definitive statement in Wide Screen Baroque—a kind of free-wheeling interplanetary adventure, full of brilliant scenery, dramatic scenes, and a joyous taking for granted of the unlikely. Bester writes with natty panache. [Ibid. xi. 314] [Kurt Vonnegut’s] Sirens of Titan, in particular, is a cascade of absurd invention, its hither-thither technique a sophisticated pinch from the Wide Screen Baroque school. | 2024-09-04 |
| widescreen baroque n. | 1964 Introduction in C. L. Harness The Paradox Men v. These pure science fiction novels may be categorized as Widescreen Baroque. They like a wide screen, with space and possibly time travel as props, and at least the whole solar system as their setting. | 2024-09-04 |
| widescreen baroque n. | 2008 Laser Fodder in Interzone (#215) Apr. 62/1 (review) Children of Dune…was a shamelessly deadweight misadventure, trashing the messianic appeal of Frank Herbert’s enduring legacy, and replacing David Lynch’s widescreen baroque of dreamscape horrors with feeble CGI. | 2024-09-04 |
| widescreen baroque n. | 2000 On Books in Asimov’s Science Fiction May 137/1 I’m trying to summon up an image of the first expertly crafted book of wild cosmic adventure you encountered that opened up your eyes to what a widescreen baroque canvas the galaxy represented. Mixing pathos and beauty with huggermugger and derring-do in various proportions, these novels are frequently bildungsromans, sending youthful protagonists out to learn just that they and the universe are made of. | 2024-09-04 |
| widescreen baroque n. | 1996 High Culture in New Statesman 26 July 478/2 (review of Iain M. Banks’s Excession) But for those who have already made The Culture’s acquaintance, it bulges with pleasures both great and small. Prominent among the former is the widescreen baroque delight, which only grand-scale space-opera can provide, of a tale played out on the biggest stage the human mind can conceive. Among the latter are the lip-smacking glee with which Banks depicts the roaringly hideous species known simply as The Affront; and another clutch of the wonderful names he gives his Culture spacecraft, including Honest Mistake, Serious Callers Only, Meatfucker and Anticipation Of A New Lover’s Arrival. | 2024-09-04 |
| widescreen baroque n. | 2014 in ‘Utopia is a Way of Saying We Could do Better’: Iain M. Banks & Kim Stanley Robinson in Conversation in Foundation (Winter) I love doing the space opera; I love widescreen, baroque space opera, to quote the admirable Mr Aldiss. I’ve always loved that phrase. I would like to do it a bit more. There is still Culture stuff to come. There're still areas I haven't explored. I'd like to make it more widescreen baroque. Not for me the kitchen-sink drama, Micky Boy, no-no! | 2024-09-04 |
| widescreen baroque n. | 2015 Science Fiction & the Imperial Audience in Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts (vol. 26, iss, 1) 9 When empires are most robust the peripheries communicate and exchange goods directly with the core…. Then comes the inevitable senescence—the center cannot hold, peripheries revolt, factionalism and fanaticism erupt, infrastructure decays, external enemies penetrate, peripheral customs become more interesting than central ones. This is history on a blockbuster scale—widescreen baroque melodrama. | 2024-09-04 |
| subjunctivity n. | 1981 Interfaces in Foundation (#22) June (review) 98 Humanitarian concern? Yes, despite wide variations in background and subjunctivity, these are stories about people. | 2024-09-04 |
| planet dweller n. | [1895 Mercia, The Astronomer Royal iii. 92 Some serious internal changes are taking place within the body of our sun. Great caverns, about one-fourth of the sun’s diameter have discovered themselves in his centre. We are not the only planet-dwellers suffering from cold at this time, for a difference will be experienced throughout the whole of the solar system.] | 2024-08-29 |
| grounder n. | 2018 Record of a Spaceborn Few (2019) 117 Young grounders had made a thing of showing up on the Fleet’s doorstep hoping to find kin or connection or some other such fluff, succeeding at little except treating everyone’s home like a zoo before learning there wasn't any romance in it and heading back to cushier lives where every problem could be answered with creds. [Ibid. 316] Without us out here, the grounders will forget within a few generations. We’ll become just another story, and not one that seems relevant. | 2024-08-28 |
| grounder n. | 2018 Record of a Spaceborn Few (2019) 261 She was from the Fleet, through and through. She wondered what other facts about grounder life her daughter hadn’t gleaned. | 2024-08-28 |
| grounder n. | [1950 The Shadow Men in Startling Stories Jan. 42/2 They were floaters, people who had no home but a house in the sky…. The bitter feeling between the floaters and the grounders, already intense, grew sharper and deadlier with the passing years. Everyone took sides. Some who had been grounders bought floaters and joined the restless throngs in the sky.] | 2024-08-28 |
| grounder n. | 1952 The Martian Way in Galaxy Magazine Nov. 35/2 They wouldn’t like it. The Grounders, I mean. They’re so used to their own lousy little world, they wouldn’t appreciate what it’s like to float and look down on Saturn. | 2024-08-28 |
| grounder n. | 1974 Once There Were Cows in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction July 102/2 As I walked, I felt the mass of the planet turning under my feet. It felt good. I guess I was a grounder at heart. | 2024-08-28 |
| grounder n. | 1979 Loser at Solitaire in Fantastic Stories Jan. 98/1 You spend your life spacing from start to star, all fine and lonesome, just soaking in all that emptiness. And then you hit port just to dig a little joy from us grounders, yeah? | 2024-08-28 |
| grounder n. | 1977 And Earth So Far Away in Galaxy Magazine Aug. 28/2 The chief was an Earthman engineer. A grounder with limited space experience, he was a deft administrator and organizer. | 2024-08-28 |
| planet dweller n. | 1931 Spacehounds of IPC in Amazing Stories Aug. v. 408/2 I deduce, from your compact structure, your enormous atmospheric pressure, and your, to us, unbelievably high body temperature, that you must be planet-dwellers. | 2024-08-28 |
| planet dweller n. | 1936 Flight of the Typhoon in Astounding Stories Oct. 140/1 Of the four mariners in the place, only the monstrous quartermaster, who was known to spaceman and planet dweller alike as ‘Mark the Massive’, seemed to take any note of my entrance. | 2024-08-28 |
| planet dweller n. | 1958 In the Box in New Worlds May 41 A ship is a spaceman’s home—more of a home, perhaps, than the house of any planet dweller. | 2024-08-28 |
| planet dweller n. | 1941 The World on the Edge of the Universe in Science Fiction Quarterly Summer 133/1 Example Twenty-Seven is the most developed case on record of what we have referred to in the previous examples as the inherent distaste of the planet-dweller for the cosmic spaces. We are all familiar with the fact that those who make their initial trips beyond the confines of their birth-world are assailed with a certain numbness that seems to make them highly suspect to nervous strains and great tension. | 2024-08-28 |
| planet dweller n. | 1950 Children of the Sun in Startling Stories May 102/1 You never saw the Sun until you got this close, Newton thought. Ordinary planet-dwellers thought of it as a beneficent golden thing in the sky, giving them heat and light and life. But here you saw the Sun as it really was, a throbbing seething core of cosmic force, utterly indifferent to the bits of ash that were its planets and to the motes that lived upon those ashes. | 2024-08-28 |
| planet dweller n. | 1966 At the Bottom of a Hole in Galaxy Magazine Dec. ii. 102/2 The stars are gone, and the land around me makes no sense. Now I know why they call planet-dwellers ‘flatlanders’. I feel like a gnat on a table. | 2024-08-28 |
| planet dweller n. | 1990 Nuts & Bolts in Interzone (#35) May 62/2 (review of Gregory Benford’s Tides of Light) Any planet-dwellers worth saving would have got off their backsides and got themselves a decent job out in space somewhere. | 2024-08-28 |
| planet dweller n. | 2010 Guardians of Paradise xlv. 330 Jarek would never get used to hollow-earth worlds. It came of being a planet-dweller for his first two decades; he’d managed to adjust to ships and stations where the horizon was cut off, but having the horizon wrapped around your head was just plain wrong. | 2024-08-28 |
| planet dweller n. | [1922 New Books in Manchester Guardian 7 Aug. 3/1 Karn is a planet-dweller who becomes a planetary soul on earth, and the poem is the story of his disillusioning experience among priests…, among kings, revolutionaries, and lovers.] | 2024-08-28 |
| planet dweller n. | [1886 Inquisitive Ambition in St. Louis Post-Dispatch 6 Feb. 11/1 I would wish to be able to journey to other spheres—to hold converse with the planet-dwellers—to know their thoughts, to examine their records, to understand their principles.] | 2024-08-28 |
| light-year n. | 1864 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (vol. 24) 71 The Absolute Parallax of 21258 Lalande, 0″.2709±0″.0112 corresponding to a distance of 761000±3200 times that of the Sun = 12.01±0.50 light-years. | 2024-08-28 |
| light-second n. | 1908 Nature, Witness ii. 31 The sun is nearly…500 light-seconds from us. | 2024-08-28 |
| light-minute n. | ca1914 The Enclosed World (part 2) 12 [Quoting ‘Prof. D.’:] We are eight light minutes from the Sun, 93,000,000 of miles by actual measurement. | 2024-08-28 |
| light-minute n. | 1925 in J. A. Thomson Science & Religion Appendix 215 A light-year is over five million million miles, and the sun is only eight-and-a-half light minutes from the earth. | 2024-08-28 |
| light-minute n. | 1930 Science Questions & Answers in Science Wonder Stories Mar. 1040/2 Our own sun is 8.3 light-minutes away. | 2024-08-28 |
| alien life form n. | [1936 Cones in Astounding Stories Feb. 130/1 Life everywhere is so stupendously complex…. But perhaps it all came about by chance, even the strange and utterly alien life forms that must exist here.] | 2024-08-28 |
| fanarchist n. | 1942 Tying Up Loose Ends Dept. in Fantast (#14) July 30 Recently malicious rumours in Fido have besmirched our good reputation, but we must state we are most definitely Fanarchist. | 2024-08-26 |
| timey-wimey adj. | 2007 Blink (Doctor Who episode) (transcript) People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly…timey-wimey…stuff. | 2024-08-21 |
| timey-wimey adj. | 2022 Guardian (What’s On section) 28 May–3 June Interstellar…. It’s brain-frying, existential stuff—particularly in the ending—but through a series of stupendous, timey-wimey set-pieces, the simple if cosmic power of love prevails. | 2024-08-21 |
| timey-wimey adj. | 2015 Outside the Box in Starburst (#417) Oct. 24/2 Expect more timey-wimey shenanigans when the episode…screens on BBC One. | 2024-08-21 |
| timey-wimey adj. | 2008 Ghosts of India (Doctor Who) vii. 132 The Doctor emerged from the TARDIS, holding his timey-wimey detector…. He made some minor adjustments to a row of rotating wheels of numbers. | 2024-08-21 |
| timey-wimey adj. | 2013 Adventure Time (vol. 2) (unpaged) I already tried to fix it but it doesn’t do the timey wimey thing anymore! | 2024-08-21 |
| timey-wimey adj. | 2014 My Heart is a Drunken Compass ii. 9 Watching my mother’s development during this period was fascinating, as if she was rooted temporally in both the shared timey-wimey, wibbly-wobbly fabric of time and space as the rest of us but also exploding forward in growth, so that every year she spent in school and working for her self after her divorce, it was also about five more years of experience for her, lurching forward through all her growth stages. She was like Doctor Who. | 2024-08-21 |
| timey-wimey adj. | 2017 Companion’s Companion (Doctor Who) 27 She had a timey-wimey out-of-order adventure with the Doctor. | 2024-08-21 |
| thud and blunder n. | [1898 The Stage 12 May 10/1 That happens when we send a musical comedy, or a very light opera to an essentially ‘heavy’ district, or inflict a pronounced ‘thud and blunder’ melodrama upon a fashionable and selectly-valetudeinarian watering-place.] | 2024-08-20 |
| planetscape n. | 1940 The Three Planeteers in Startling Stories Jan. 82/1 It was a strangely luminous planet[-]scape they looked down upon, a world shimmering everywhere with the dusky blue radiance they had noticed from afar. | 2024-08-14 |
| planetscape n. | 1967 Secret of the Marauder Satellite xi. 117 The alien object hung, unmoving, for a moment, and then turning on a different axis, began to move away. I followed it with my eyes as it crossed over the bright planetscape below. | 2024-08-14 |
| planetscape n. | 2008 Saturn’s Children 147 He sits in twilight, ignoring the planetscape outside his porthole. | 2024-08-14 |
| planetscape n. | 1954 Teucan in Cosmos Science Fiction & Fantasy July 3/1 He was on the fringe of the wild. Beyond were cultivated fields, stone huts scattered like grain seeds over the mighty planetscape, wide highways of beaten earth converging on the distant walls of a city. | 2024-08-14 |
| planetscape n. | 1977 The Amazing Interview: Hal Clement in Amazing Stories Mar. 78/1 Do you ever do it by starting with a scene or visually striking planetscape, then rationalizing it? | 2024-08-14 |
| planetscape n. | 1990 Clarke County, Space 221 Buck and Bertha dived into their red-and-green striped winged spaceship. It bounced across the planetscape, brown smoke farting from its rear and rivets shaking loose from the seams, before puttering into the sky. | 2024-08-14 |
| planetscape n. | 2019 Salvation Lost (2020) 40 Conference rooms, in his experience, always had a view—across cities or nature (gorgeous panoramas of jungles, mountains, and oceans) or even the astonishing vistas of space, from gas-giant rings to alien planetscapes. | 2024-08-14 |
| planetscape n. | 2000 Revelation Space x. 173 With his impaired vision, he could only guess at the colours of the planetscapes, but he assumed that the spheres represented a steady march towards blue-green verdure. | 2024-08-14 |
| fix-up n. | 2016 Otto Binder 303 Most of the ‘Via’ stories were reprinted in a ‘fix-up’ novel in 1971 by Curtis books called Puzzle of the Space Pyramids. | 2024-08-09 |
| time storm n. | 1995 On Books in Asimov’s Science Fiction Dec. 167/2 We share Toby’s adventure as assistant to an exalted river pilot on a craft that simultaneously sails through time and up a river…. The worst danger of all is the possibility of a time storm. | 2024-08-09 |
| antispinward adv. | 1970 Ringworld (1976) xvii. 240 Air moving in from the opposite direction, from antispinward, will become fractionally heavier…. From antispinward it comes, Louis. Its rotational velocity is increased fractionally with respect to the Ring. [Ibid. 301] We’ve got to get past the Eye storm. Then turn forty-five degrees or so to antispinward. | 2024-08-08 |
| antispinward adv. | 1992 Fire upon Deep 390 For your information, I have no trouble reaching sites that are antispinward. I understand an effort is being made to hop messages the long way around the galaxy. | 2024-08-08 |
| antispinward adv. | 1978 The Avatar 171 They retreated spinward from us. The auditorium is antispinward from here. We’ll have a slight jump on them. | 2024-08-08 |
| antispinward adv. | 1977 Ophiuchi Hotline (1994) 31 She faced the sun, which was a small but very bright disc just to anti-spinward of Saturn. | 2024-08-08 |
| antispinward adv. | 1985 Eon liv. 316 They backtracked anti-spinward to the zero compound. | 2024-08-08 |
| antispinward adv. | 1990 Clarke County, Space xv. 186 Tennis was also feasible, but since the Coriolis effect tended to make all the shots swerve a little anti-spinward, most players ended their games in frustration. | 2024-08-08 |
| antispinward adv. | 2009 Eye of the Storm 53 Your father’s corps was probing along the spinward axis of the spiral arm. Akoria is on the anti-spinward axis. | 2024-08-08 |
| antispinward adv. | 2017 Darkness Falling 81 You’re two hundred fifteen kilomters antispinward from where you entered the ring. | 2024-08-08 |
| antispinward adv. | [1966 Lost Perception (1968) xv. 140 Vega Jumpoff Station was a huge doughnut that rotated serently about its nodular hub in the quiet of space…. ‘Spinward’ and ‘contraspinward’ were curvilinear directions along the ring. ‘Up’ mean towards the hub. [Ibid. 141] That…was because they were moving all that heavy equipment contraspinward.] | 2024-08-08 |
| spinward adv. | 1999 Through Alien Eyes (2000) ii. 46 We bought another ten hectares just spinward of Toivo's place. | 2024-08-08 |