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| Word | Quotation | Date Added |
| corpsicle n. | 2024 The Downloaded 61 Six rows of six beds: thirty-six corpsicles. | 2025-06-11 |
| gray goo n. | 1986 Engines of Creation 173 Among the cognoscenti of nanotechnology, this threat has become known as the ‘gray goo problem’. Though masses of uncontrolled replicators need not be gray or gooey, the term ‘gray goo’ emphasizes that replicators able to obliterate life might be less inspiring than a single species of crabgrass…. The gray goo threat makes one thing perfectly clear: we cannot afford certain kinds of accidents with replicating assemblers. | 2025-06-11 |
| gray goo n. | 1990 The Boot in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Dec. 110 On the far bank bulked the black silicrobe-built bubble the authorities had hastily erected around MIT five years ago, during the Gray Goo Boo-boo. | 2025-06-11 |
| gray goo n. | 1998 Moonwar 88 The containment worked. Although nanomachines were assembled constantly for tasks as diverse as ferreting oxygen atoms out of the regolith and building spacecraft structures of pure diamond out of carbon dust from asteroids, there had been no runaway ‘gray goo’ of nanomachines devouring everything in their path, no plagues of nanobug diseases. | 2025-06-11 |
| gray goo n. | 2004 Remote Speaking in Interzone (#193) Spring 55/2 Prince Charles supports the nano-rapture or grey-goo scenario, where the chance, deliberate or just plain miraculous invention of molecule-sized architects skilled in the ways of raw matter build us all our ideal homes. | 2025-06-11 |
| gray goo n. | 2014 Alien AWOLs: The Great Silence in Analog Science Fiction & Fact Oct. 26/1 Rather than study or contact distant habitable worlds, this ATC’s probes might drop big asteroids on them. Or dust worlds with replicators, setting off nanotech/gray-goo catastrophes. | 2025-06-11 |
| gray goo n. | 2024 Small Minds in Analog Science Fiction & Fact May–June 181/2 ‘The humans are that scared of me?’ ‘Gray goo, remember? Eat everything, perpetual replication until all resources are consumed. If they think you can resist their efforts to shut you down, their only option is to make sure you no longer exist.’ | 2025-06-11 |
| gray goo n. | 1986 Tomorrow Makers xvii. 246 One night I went to the MIT Nanotechnology Study Group with Eric Drexler... I had asked Eric’s wife, Chris Peterson, about the darker side of the technology. Chris, an MIT chemistry graduate, said, ‘It’s called the gray-goo problem among people who have started to think about this.’ She then went on to describe scenarios in which bacteria-size robots could prove more devastating to life on Earth than even nuclear bombs…. Such bacteria-size robots would multiply insanely, mindlessly consuming anything and everything that was carbon based, which is to say all life upon the planet, after which the robots could begin eating the rocks, eating the very planet upon which they had been created. | 2025-06-11 |
| nanobot n. | 2016 War Factory xviii. 488 Their bodies might contain some stray useful data—perhaps recorded to the memory of a medical nanobot. | 2025-06-10 |
| fix-it n. | 2025 Did a TV Show Hurt Your Feelings? ‘Fix-Its’ Offer Justice in N.Y. Times 3 May (electronic ed.) Fans are taking matters into their own hands by writing ‘fix-it fics’, or simply ‘fix-its’, which attempt to right the perceived wrongs of a beloved work—and often provide some measure of emotional succor. [Ibid.] When Mark’s office persona, Mark S., chose his workplace love…over his wife in the Season 2 finale, Zeilo took it up a notch. She wrote not one but two fix-its in which Gemma gets her man. | 2025-06-04 |
| fix-it n. | 2001 How to Construct Alternate Universes that Work as Fanfic in Fanfic Symposium 2 Aug. In character centered universes (or stories) there are usually a couple of standard points of divergence in fanfic for each fandom, mostly employed to ‘fix’ a canon fact that some subgroups of the fandom don’t like. Those fix-its can become stale after a while: what if RayV didn't choose his undercover job, Qui-Gong wasn’t dead, Blair didn’t renounce his dissertation etc. | 2025-06-04 |
| fix-it n. | 2011 Fix-It Fic on Goldenlake Tamora Pierce Discussion Board (reply to forum post) I don't know that I’ve ever written a proper ‘fix-it.’ I’ve attempted, but never published any of them. I have written plenty of ‘what if bad event in canon wasn’t averted?’ fic. Those are fun. (Or maybe it’s just me). I tend more towards: ‘hey, canon!writer. You left a hole here. I will fix it for you’ though, more than anything. | 2025-06-04 |
| fix-it n. | 2018 Cap/IM: Fix-It Friday Recs (2018) on Tumblr 13 July If you know me, you know I love Fix-Its. So for the Fix-It Friday theme, first of all, there are two rec-lists I have already done: MCU Stony Post-Civil War Fix-Its / Marvel 616 Stony Post-Civil War Fix-Its / And to those lists I’d also like to add the following stories…. A post-Infinity War Fix-It I loved reading: give me some time, I’m living in twilight by oh_simone (1,938 words) Summary: A spaceship carrying the survivors from Titan lands in Wakanda, and Tony Stark is not on it. Why I love it : This is just a unique premise for a fix it of The Snap that everyone needs to read! Gen with heavy Steve/Tony overtones. | 2025-06-04 |
| fix-it adj. | 2002 Issue #28 on LiveJournal 8 Feb. I knew they were gonna do bad things to my favorite character... I knew they were gonna do bad things to my favorite character... I knew they were gonna do bad things to my favorite character... *wanders off to write a fix-it fic* | 2025-06-04 |
| fix-it adj. | 2018 Fandom: Fic Writers, Vidders, Gamers, Artists, and Cosplayers i. 17 In 1893, tired of the character, Conan Doyle killed Holmes off. Holmes fans were outraged, and they let the author know it in letters. Then, in a classic case of fans wanting more of what they love, they wrote their own stories, which they called pastiches, a word borrowed from French. Some, in what modern fans call fix-it fic, found ways to resurrect Holmes. Conan Doyle eventually brought Holmes back—but by then an influential fandom had been born. | 2025-06-04 |
| fix-it adj. | 1999 Life, Death, and Life of Qui-Gon Jinn, or Why Dead Should Stay Dead in Fanfic Symposium 21 Oct. Could this lesson have been learned without Qui-Gon’s death? Possibly. And I want to stress that there are some ‘fixit’ stories that maintain a certain tragic integrity (although these are usually AU’s that take the saga in direction Lucas never imagined). The problem with many of these ‘fixit’ stories, tho’, is that either their sole purpose is to provide a happy ending, to revive a character the author clearly loves, or to keep Qui-Gon around for post-TPM stories. | 2025-06-04 |
| fix-it adj. | 2022 Post on Tumblr 3 Apr. i love how there’s the genre of fix-it fic where the author goes into great granular detail of how our heroes manage to avoid or undo whatever character death or other unpopular choice occurred, in a way that abides by the laws of the fictional universe and definitely required a substantial plot outline, and then there are fix-it fics where the author just went ‘that’s bullshit and didn’t happen,’ and we as readers all go ‘agreed. carry on’. | 2025-06-04 |
| fix-it adj. | 2008 A Fix-it Fic for Twilight? in Twilight Sucks on LiveJournal 13 Sept. I've been thinking about this, has anyone thought about writing a Fix-It Fic for Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, or Breaking Dawn? Now, I'm not talking about AU fics, or fics where Bella is paired up with one of the dozen guys falling all over her instead of going with Edward. Rather, I'm talking about someone taking the Twilight universe and ‘fixing’ all the things wrong with it. | 2025-06-04 |
| fix-it adj. | 2024 on Tumblr 27 July I was today years old when I learned fix-it fics don't necessarily always mean ‘fics that undo the characters' deaths and make things better for these characters, or fics that rewrite canon to make a ship happen’ but it can also mean ‘fics that just make the torture a thousand times more graphic and WORSE for the blorbos since canon is too vanilla’ what???? so fix-it fics is basically fics that make the authors happy? hmm, I am not complaining ;) | 2025-06-04 |
| universe-wide adv. | 1996 Preternatural xi. 177 ‘We’re back with our special guest Max Neimark, known and loved by millions nationwide—can we say worldwide?’ ‘Worldwide. Why not?…. Why not galaxy-wide?’ He shrugs at the audience. ‘Universe-wide?’ They applaud. | 2025-05-30 |
| universe-wide adv. | 2001 Maximum Warp: Book Two of Two (Star Trek: The Next Generation) xix. 192 I believe the dimensional scans are being conducted universe-wide. | 2025-05-30 |
| universe-wide adv. | 1980 The Last Dinosaur in The Devil Rides with Me 70 Sir Cedric was widely recognized by everyone as….[a] man whose appetite for destruction ranged universe wide. | 2025-05-30 |
| universe-wide adv. | 1953 The Kenzie Report in Worlds of If May 72/1 Those radiations…happen to be communications between the galaxies—beamed at the ants. Sort of a continuous radio program broadcast universe wide. | 2025-05-30 |
| universe-wide adj. | 1983 On Books in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine Jan. 24/1 The stage is set for the universe-wide war between the two super races. | 2025-05-30 |
| universe-wide adj. | 1967 Ultimate Creature in Magazine of Horror Nov. 44/1 Peter Feeney was a salesman of a Universe-wide product. | 2025-05-30 |
| universe-wide adj. | 1935 Princess of Pallis in Astounding Stories Oct. 101/1 She was a strong ship, built to carry tons of freight from planet to planet throughout the interplanetary’s universe-wide territory of commerce. | 2025-05-30 |
| universe-wide adj. | 2009 in Interzone (#222) June 52/2 Not every scrap of information has been approved for this universe-wide upload of information. | 2025-05-30 |
| universe-wide adj. | 1945 Devils from Darkonia in Thrilling Wonder Stories Spring 19/1 I assure you we are a reputable Universe-wide concern. | 2025-05-30 |
| universe-wide adj. | 2010 Thus Spake the Aliens in Analog Science Fiction & Fact Jan.–Feb. 148/2 We’re one of the kinds of animals they’re tending in a universe-wide ‘Paradise’! | 2025-05-30 |
| BNF n. | 2025 I hate being a BNF and it makes me want to stop writing in r/AO3 (Reddit) 26 May I hate being a BNF and it makes me want to stop writing…. I am a fucking fan, too. I came into these spaces for community and camaraderie. But now I exist in this purgatory space where I’m ‘exalted’ in the fandom enough to isolate me, while simultaneously not actually existing in a ‘pro’ space with peers. | 2025-05-26 |
| 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. | 2025-05-21 |
| Ganymedian n. 2 | 2009 Who Better to Play the Devil? 206 Their first real communications were written to one another in the language of their masters, in the Ganymedian tongue. | 2025-05-21 |
| Ganymedian n. 2 | 1941 Slacker’s Paradise in Astounding Science-Fiction Apr. 92/2 He might make ridiculous errors in…Ionic or Ganymedian grammar, but he didn’t care. If the idea got across, that was enough. | 2025-05-21 |
| Ganymedian n. 2 | 1957 Before Egypt in Amazing Stories Jan. 74/2 ‘You’re not sure,’ Nicko was saying in Ganymedian French. | 2025-05-21 |
| Ganymedian n. 2 | 1936 Pursuit into Nowhere in Planeteer (#3) Jan. i. He spoke rather indistinctly anyhow, for the Ganymedian tongue is nothing like English and never could be. | 2025-05-21 |
| fan service n. | 2005 in N.Y. Times 17 July ii. 4/2 It’s a cliché that Japanese animation is populated by big-eyed, big-breasted little girls. But in anime’s strangest new trend, these often hypersexualized moppets are being turned into killing machines…. Lucy in ‘ELFEN LIED’ (2004) is the product of sinister biomedical experiments…. Lucy spends much of the show’s opening episode completely naked, an example of the gratuitous nudity called ‘fan service’. | 2025-05-15 |
| fan service n. | 2003 in L.A. Times 26 June 8 Many anime series include so-called ‘fan service’ shots of scantily clad girls. | 2025-05-15 |
| fan service n. | 1999 On the Screen: Knights of Ramune in AnimeFantastique Winter 59/4 It is 93% Fan Service (bouncing bosoms, shower shots, and underwear shots) and only about 7% adventure. | 2025-05-15 |
| fan service n. | 2014 Starburst Magazine (#406) Nov. 121/2 What’s here is little more than an excuse for gratuitous fan-service but it’s hard not to grin as the nostalgia kicks in. | 2025-05-15 |
| fan service n. | 1991 Re: Silent Mobius in rec.arts.anime (Usenet newsgroup) 15 Nov. Also I didn't like the idea of showing Arslan with Silent Mobius. since Arslan Senki has completely different type of fans. However, I think the movie was made for fan service and/or to investigate the potential market for bigger project. | 2025-05-15 |
| fan service n. | 1994 [EventReport] Dirty Pair Flash event 2/13 in rec.arts.anime.info (Usenet newsgroup) 14 Feb. Then they had a question and answer session. Q: Why do the Dirty Pair have to transform? Takachiho: They are just changing clothes. M. Rika: It is fan service. (^_^;) | 2025-05-15 |
| fan service n. | 2013 Goldfinch ix. 445 Andy had chosen Japanese as his second language precisely because he had such a thing for fanservice miko and slutty manga girls in sailor uniform. | 2025-05-15 |
| fan service n. | 2010 My Best Friend is a Wookiee 216 It was offensive on all levels, even more than the other two [movies]. Packed to the gills with fan service—hey look, it’s Chewbacca! Remember him? Wink, wink! | 2025-05-15 |
| fan service n. | 2007 Reading Comics i. 6 The bottom caption, ‘Dedicated to you, the great new Marvel breed of reader!’—well, that’s a clue to the future: most obviously, Lee is setting up the idiotic brand rivalry between Marvel and its chief competitor, DC, that continues to this day. But he’s also suggesting that he and Ditko are establishing something new that has more to do with a broader system (the ‘Marvel breed’) than with the particular comic book at hand, and that what they’re presenting is a kind of fan service—giving the ‘Marvel breed’ exactly what they want. | 2025-05-15 |
| fan service n. | [1980 Making of Star Trek—The Motion Picture 52 A fan service organization known as the Star Trek Welcommittee publishes a list of fan clubs.] | 2025-05-15 |
| fan service n. | [1988 Animag (#4) 15 In Japan, fan service events like previews and live shows are held around Tokyo, Osaka, and Nagoya concurrently with the release of new animation films.] | 2025-05-15 |
| fan service n. | [1952 Authentic Science Fiction July 112 (advt.) Fan service for science-fiction fans Magazine and book trading. Postal library. Bookbinding…. Newsletter [etc.].] | 2025-05-15 |
| fan service n. | 1994 Otakon94 Program Guide 28 Someone has stolen GinRei’s favorite silk battle dress, and she’s out to kick larcenous ass! Highlights include relentless ‘fan service’ shots of our heroine. | 2025-05-15 |
| fan service n. | 2024 USA Today Dec. 30 2/2 Marvel…beat superhero fatigue allegations with ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’, the current second-highest-grossing film of the year and biggest R-rated movie in history. Its success could lead Marvel to lean even harder into fan service and cameos. | 2025-05-15 |
| verse n. | 2002 War Stories (Firefly episode) 6 Dec. (transcription) No power in the ’verse can stop me. | 2025-05-10 |
| cyberpunk n. 1 | 2013 in Interzone (#244) Jan.–Feb. 77/3 (review) Its crumbling cyberpunk aesthetic…signals a harsh critique of systems reliant on technology, whether those systems are home computers or large political bodies. | 2025-05-09 |
| AU n. | 1999 Life, Death, and Life of Qui-Gon Jinn, or Why Dead Should Stay Dead in Fanfic Symposium 21 Oct. Could this lesson have been learned without Qui-Gon’s death? Possibly. And I want to stress that there are some ‘fixit’ stories that maintain a certain tragic integrity (although these are usually AU’s that take the saga in direction Lucas never imagined). The problem with many of these ‘fixit’ stories, tho’, is that either their sole purpose is to provide a happy ending, to revive a character the author clearly loves, or to keep Qui-Gon around for post-TPM stories. | 2025-05-09 |
| AU n. | 2016 All the Feels: All is Fair in Love & Fandom 226 Her name was Kelly, and Liv had known her for years as the fic-writer @SpartanGrrl, who specialized in High School AUs, Baby!fic, and all forms of romantic fluff. | 2025-05-09 |
| AU n. | 2019 As If! Clueless and the Modern AU in Austentatious 37 A stunning example of the modern AU—or alternate universe—fanfiction, the film completely transforms the setting of Emma, placing the story in the dramatic, plaid- and platform-filled world of the Beverly Hills teenager. | 2025-05-09 |
| AU n. | 2011 What Is Fanfiction? in Storyworlds (vol. 3) 17 In keeping with a lot of AU fanfiction based on classic texts, the language is a mix of homages to Austen and contemporary slang (Mr ‘arsehole’ Darcy; SOB), and the story [sc. ‘Ae Fond Kiss’] also resembles other fanfics in its knowing humor (for example, recasting Mary Bennet as a ‘goth’). | 2025-05-09 |
| AU n. | 1993 in Virgule-L 9 Oct. in Fanlore Why do AUs, so many of them just seem like they were written to get the guys in different costumes. I firmly believe in fun role-playing, and fantasizing about what B and D would be like in a Victorian London setting seems like perfectly harmless fun to me…. At least when someone scribbles an AU, there is some energy and thought going into setting and plot. | 2025-05-09 |
| AU n. | 2005 Cataloging the Whedonverse (MA thesis, University of North Carolina) 44 In the Whedonverse, AU can refer to fanfic set in a non-supernatural universe, where Buffy is not a Slayer and Sunnydale is a normal town (i.e., not situated on a Hellmouth, and not home to vampires). | 2025-05-09 |
| AU n. | 2001 Fanfic Lexicon in TheForce.Net 23 Feb. ALTERNATE UNIVERSE. Also AU or A/U. Fanfic set in a universe which is different from the canon show universe. AUs are also known as What Ifs (What if Luke had joined Vader?), Elseworld (DC, Marvel fandom) and Uber (Xena fandom). | 2025-05-09 |
| AU n. | 2025 Post on Bluesky 26 Mar. I also think people always have different interpretations of what they read and like to explore AUs; that's one of the most fun parts of reading and discussing books. But declaring that your head canon is fact and everyone else's is wrong in the author's mentions? That's not a good hill to die on. | 2025-05-09 |
| AU n. | 2000 In defense of A/Us: a writer confesses... on Fanfic Symposium July 10 After reading Lena's column on A/Us, I feel that I need to speak up for fans and writers who like alternate universes…. I feel the need to defend a/us because a/us allows us to expand our imagination and creativity…. Some experiments success [sic]. Some fail. But writers still like writing a/us. | 2025-05-09 |
| alternate universe n. 2 | 2016 Is the alternate universe in The Man In The High Castle our universe? on StackExchange (Science Fiction & Fantasy) 18 Dec. In The Man In The High Castle show, Tagomi is able to travel to an alternate universe where the Axis did not win WWII and the world looks much more similar to our real history. But is the alternate universe in the show meant to be our real universe? My initial assumption was yes, but then they show that the Japanese were able to develop a hydrogen bomb and test it in their territory. That never happened in our reality, so does that mean the alternative universe is not our universe? | 2025-05-09 |
| alternate universe n. 2 | 1979 Variations on a Theme (#3) Aug. 1 In Kraith Collected we met an alternate universe Spock whose Kirk had died. | 2025-05-09 |
| alternate universe n. 2 | 2020 Why Even the Worst Alternate Universes Can Feel Like Safe Spaces in Paste 5 Mar. The key to an alternate universe is the reason it exists—the aforementioned ‘what if?’ coupled with the question of ‘why?’—otherwise known as the divergence point. | 2025-05-09 |
| alternate universe n. 2 | 1982 Letter in Facets (#9/10) May 11/1 [T]he alternate story lines are sometimes as fascinating and fun as the original versions. If my own universe gets blown to shreds by ROTJ I’ll be a bit upset probably, even though I fully expect that to happen, but at that point I’ll simply consider mine an alternate universe and stay with it, possibly starting a new line to go with the official one. We’ll see. | 2025-05-09 |
| alternate universe n. 2 | 1984 Letter in Southern Enclave (#4) June 45/1 I think what I was really after was a hierarchy of secondary canon. What is secondary canon and what is alternate universe? Where does tradition fit in? What is their order of importance or believability? | 2025-05-09 |
| alternate universe n. 2 | 2024 ‘Reylo’ Romance Novels Were A Huge Hit. Is This Star Wars Fan Fic Next? in Rolling Stone 17 July In 2024, popular fic author SenLinYu announced that her famed Harry Potter story ‘Manacled’, set in an alternate universe and focused on Draco and Hermione, would be traditionally published under a new name and premise. | 2025-05-09 |
| alternate universe n. 2 | 2011 What Is Fanfiction and Why Are People Saying Such Nice Things about It?? in Storyworlds (Vol. 3) 16 ‘Ae Fond Kiss’ falls into the category of AU (Alternate Universe stories): it imagines Elizabeth Bennet working as a schoolteacher in present-day Glasgow, while Jane Bennet is recast as a social worker, and ‘Bill Collins’ is an irritating mature student whom Elizabeth meets at a training college. | 2025-05-09 |
| alternate universe n. 2 | 2000 In defense of A/Us: a writer confesses... on Fanfic Symposium 10 July Alternate universes basically offer one thing: alternates. We do want to see different sorts of conclusions, right? We don't want to see Qui-Gon die so we re-invent scenes where he doesn't die. We don't like this particular scenario and a whole legion of fics can start from there. Such are the joys of a/us. There are stories with Jim and Blair bonded together. There are stories with Chakotay and Paris married and having children. The moment a fan-fic writer starts writing, she is essentially starting an alternative universe of her own. She is creating a world as she sees it . | 2025-05-09 |
| alternate universe n. 2 | 1977 Obsc'zine Aug. 5/1 I am not trying to attack a Kirk/Spock sexual relationship in general. It is just that when an author uses terms from a particular ‘alternate universe’, that author ought, in my opinion, be limited by the boundaries of the universe that the terms imply. I don’t believe that a homosexual relationship for Spock and Kirk is legitimate in the KRAITH universe, and I therefore object to certain aspects of ‘Aftermath’. | 2025-05-09 |
| slash n. | 2002 In Defense of PG-13 Slash in Fanfic Symposium 1 Oct. I have heard many slash readers state in no uncertain terms that they read slash to get to the sex scenes. Plot and characterization, they say, are there to make the sex scenes more enjoyable. | 2025-05-08 |
| fan fiction n. | 1962 Letter in Mirage (#5) Summer 44 The four stories were interesting, though not outstanding….Quite readable, and not too gawky in structure as so much fan fiction is today. | 2025-05-08 |
| fan fiction n. | 1952 Fandora’s Box in Imagination July 145/2 I like fan fiction. I don’t expect it to be professional, and can therefore be happily uncritical…. I read fan fiction for fun, and I even enjoy every cliche, as long as the spirit behind it is fresh. | 2025-05-08 |
| moonport n. | 1944 Outlaw Queen of Venus in Fantastic Adventures Feb. 12/1 He studied the charts carefully. The Moonport super had said he would need to make a one-degree correction…. This at least was a lot simpler than blasting off from Earth…before managing to chart a course for the Moon. | 2025-04-23 |
| moonport n. | 1950 The Eyes Are Watching in Amazing Stories July 96/2 Bell led him…to a brightly lighted bistro labeled the Moonport Bar and Grill…. The place was basically a bar room with tables and booths, but it was done up to represent the popular idea of a moonport. It had weird cardboard cut-out foliage growing here and there. High murals depicted bug-eyed monsters chasing scantily dressed babes among fantastic ferns. | 2025-04-23 |
| moonport n. | 1953 Dreadful Therapy in Science Fiction Quarterly Aug. 29/2 They’ll ask me why I wasn’t at the Moonport this morning on schedule. | 2025-04-23 |
| moonport n. | 1965 Million-Mile Hunt in Worlds of If Mar. 86/1 Nobody liked Marsport. Marsport was a cankerous bubble of air on a dead, dead world. Moonport was safe, clean, uncluttered. | 2025-04-23 |
| moonport n. | 1977 And Earth So Far Away in Galaxy Magazine Aug. 14/2 He was a moonborn child of five when his parents left Moonport Tycho on the first colony ships to Mars. | 2025-04-23 |
| moonport n. | 2009 The Darksmith Legacy: The Dust of Ages (Doctor Who) 62 Once the main power’s back we can send a signal to Moonport Five and get them to send help. | 2025-04-23 |
| moonport n. | 1947 Navy Rocket Expected to Soar 200 Miles in Christian Science Monitor 15 Aug. 17 A number of test rockets are being built for the Navy which will attain a vertical speed of 8,500 feet per second…. A moon rocket traveling at that speed could leave Earthport at, say, 6:30 p.m. on a Monday and arrive at Moonport at noon the following Wednesday. | 2025-04-23 |
| earthport n. | 1951 The Scapegoats in New Worlds Autumn 45 At Earthport there were the usual formalities, though on a slightly larger scale than at the Lareenian port. | 2025-04-23 |
| earthport n. | 1964 The Store of Heart’s Desire in Worlds of If May 80/2 The circulation of water in immense volumes, millions upon millions of gallons, for the multiple purposes of Earthport—sanitation, cooling, drinking, industrial purposes. [Ibid. 110/2] They had flown into Earthport city. | 2025-04-23 |
| earthport n. | 1980 Starburst Magazine (#27) Nov. 29 (advt.) You will spend six months travelling from Earthport across millions of miles of space, visiting strange and wonderful planets along the way. | 2025-04-23 |
| earthport n. | 1992 Barriers in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Oct.–Nov. 84 I knew that was my last Thanksgiving at home; my first billet would leave from Earthport in January, and astronauts aren’t often home for holidays. | 2025-04-23 |
| earthport n. | 2015 Endurance iv. 20 The frame bore down, widening in my view, and fell around us, obscuring the view of Earth and Earthport. | 2025-04-23 |
| earthport n. | 1931 An Adventure on Eros in Wonder Stories Sept. 548/1 He…pushed forward the blue square of crinkled paper…. [to:] INTERPLANETARY EARTHPORT [message:] IMPORTANT STOP DETAIN ALL SPACECRAFT LEAVING EARTH…[signed:] COMMANDER MARSPORT. | 2025-04-23 |
| earthport n. | 1956 Double Star in Astounding Science Fiction Mar. 107/1 There was the usual sky[-]field crowd, not as numerous as at any Earthport, but numerous. | 2025-04-23 |
| marsport n. | 1931 An Adventure on Eros in Wonder Stories Sept. 548/1 He…pushed forward the blue square of crinkled paper…. [to:] INTERPLANETARY EARTHPORT [message:] IMPORTANT STOP DETAIN ALL SPACECRAFT LEAVING EARTH…[signed:] COMMANDER MARSPORT. | 2025-04-23 |
| marsport n. | 1937 Water for Mars in Astounding Stories Apr. ii. 17/1 In a fever of anxiety, he left the ship at Marsport, rocketed in a single passenger ship across the dull deserts, and followed a main canal to the capitol. | 2025-04-23 |
| marsport n. | 1947 Quest to Centaurus in Thrilling Wonder Stories Apr. 81/1 He went to bed and, the next morning, dropped his ship at Marsport. | 2025-04-23 |
| marsport n. | 1955 Deadhead in Galaxy Magazine July 81/1 I drove down to Marsport a few hours after the Earth ship landed. [Ibid. 88/1] I climbed in my jeep and drove to Marsport. I had quite a few harsh words to say to the captain of the space freighter who had allowed Franklin on board. | 2025-04-23 |
| marsport n. | 1965 Under Two Moons in Worlds of If Sept. 9/2 He knew this part of Marsport less well than almost any of the rest of the red planet, but recognized this rundown corridor as a slum. | 2025-04-23 |
| marsport n. | 1974 The Military Hospital in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May 52/1 DeLazzari watched the TV news, followed the courses of battles over the world and on Moonbase and Marsport, and made book with himself on where his next casualties would be coming from. | 2025-04-23 |
| marsport n. | 2022 The Way Back in Analog Science Fiction & Fact Jan.–Feb. 99/2 I’d learn the trade, score my license before I was twenty—see Marsport and Darkside, Ceres, Pallermo, and the Solomons in the Belt. I couldn’t wait. | 2025-04-23 |
| marsport n. | 1998 Olympus Mons! in Analog Science Fiction & Fact Feb. 16/1 I have to admit that I was a little overwhelmed by the bureaucrats at Marsport. Took me four days to fill out all the waivers and get them processed. And the fees! | 2025-04-23 |
| stfandom n. | 1940 Boost Science Fiction Not Politics in Fantasy News (#81) Jan. 2/1 The editor of this paper feels that everything he has done in fandom in the past is perfectly justified because everything he has done and accomplished he sincerely believes has been in the best interests of and for the progress of science fiction fandom. He will continue to work for the best in stfandom and will advance it in the best ways he knows how. | 2025-04-14 |
| stfandom n. | 1939 The Voice of Ex-SPEERience in Voice of the Imagi-Nation (#4) Dec. 10 I grant you that Ray Palmer is enough to scuttle a man's faith in stfandom, but there are many examples of sincere pros who do care for science-fiction and fandom apart from anything they may make off of it. | 2025-04-14 |
| stfandom n. | 1950 Startling Stories Sept. 144/1 (editorial response to reader letter) But don't let it throw you. We have another hunch that stfandom will still be around after the rocket has returned to Earth—either on some high plateau or m the slimy swampbottoms—complete with fads and feuds and foolish if quasi-endearing fripperies. | 2025-04-14 |
| stfandom n. | 1961 Among the FMZ in Fanac (#80) Oct. 6 NEOLITHIC 19…this time is dominated by the first part of Redd Boggs's history of stfandom in Minnesota. | 2025-04-14 |
| stfandom n. | 1975 Letter 8 June in RUNE (#44) 8 Seems there is a conspiracy among US Post Mesters [sic] against stfandom in general.… We'll have to go UNDERGROUND in order to get decent postal service for stf material. | 2025-04-14 |
| stfandom n. | 1944 Gutless Wonders in Fan-Dango #5 (Summer) 2 If we accept fandom as a hobby, we are ethically free to make or reject friends wholly without reference to stfandom. | 2025-04-14 |