Newest Quotations
| Word | Quotation | Date Added |
| filksing n. | 1961 Seacon Snapshots in Neolithic (#18) Sept. 4 Eaa and I asked if there any filk sings in session [sic]. Bruce said yes, but, when we went up, we found that it had stopped. | 2026-04-17 |
| filksinging n. | ?1961 Bjottings (unpaged) The party lasted until about 5 a.m., with filk-singing until 4:30. | 2026-04-17 |
| time-slip v. | 1974 Frankenstein Unbound in Fantastic May 38 (editorial blurb) Time was slipping disasterously! [sic] Bodenland found himself timeslipped from the year 2020 to the year 1816, but even there slippages were occurring from season to season while Bodenland pursued a man named Victor Frankenstein and his creature stalked the Frigid Lands of another time and place! [Ibid. 38/1] A disasterous [sic] Last War has ruptured time and space and Joseph Bodenland finds his Texas ranch of 2020 timeslipped into another era. It is not the first such slippage, but this time while he is out in his Felder (and atomically-fuelled automobile) the slippage ceases and he finds himself trapped in the time and land to which the ranch was briefly transported. | 2026-04-16 |
| time-slip v. | 1984 Things to Come in Starburst Mar. 7/1 The nearest any of the Embassy projects get to even fantasy is in Heaven Sent, a kind of updating of Peter Ustinov's Vice-Versa (1947), in which a youth time-slips back into the youth of his parents. | 2026-04-16 |
| time-slip v. | 1995 Asimov’s Science Fiction May 40 (editorial introduction to Eliot Fintushel’s The Beast with Two Backs) Eliot Fintushel shows us why you can't be too casual with your chrono-monitor when time-slipping down causal ravines and negotiating with transcats and womporfs. | 2026-04-16 |
| time-slip v. | 1995 Seven Wonders in Asimov’s Science Fiction Dec. 133 Instead it was a STOP hovership, homing in on a time-slipped expedition out of tenth century Burma that had become badly tangled in a twentieth century war. Love took an active part in the ensuing firefight between Special Temporal Operations and a full battalion from the 308th NVA division. | 2026-04-16 |
| time-slip v. | 2001 Mutant Popcorn in Interzone (#163) Jan. 31/1 (review of the film version of Tom’s Midnight Garden) A rich, poignant reflection on landscape, change and memory, the book has its 1950s hero timeslip nightly to become the imaginary friend of a lonely Victorian orphan, watching her grow up and put childhood behind her in the space of what for the devastated Tom is only a few summer weeks, with an unforgettable climactic set piece (skating upriver to Ely in the great frost of 1895) capped by an affecting final reunion in Tom’s own time with the old lady in whose memories he has been lodging. | 2026-04-16 |
| time-slip v. | 2014 in Interzone (#253) July–Aug. 76/2 (review of Octavia Butler’s Kindred) There’s no technology involved, no chin-stroke wrestling with the Grandfather Paradox; never once do we discover how Dana time-slips, let alone why it is that she can take objects or other people along with her; Dana’s ability to time-slip simply is. | 2026-04-16 |
| time-slip v. | 2018 A Surprise Beginning in Analog Science Fiction & Fact Sept.–Oct. 53/2 Turned out, the cornucopia of science had continued, even accelerated, while I was getting timeslipped into 2037. The technoculture never quit. | 2026-04-16 |
| lox n. | 1992 Pantry in Folly (#15) 10 May 17/1 Anyhoo, my time is taken up with…reading a few fanzines—which calls for a few lox—and a tad of personal correspondences. | 2026-04-15 |
| lox n. | 1976 Letter in MOTA (#19) Aug.–Sept. 36 Did the Katz's ever run my lox in Wooden Nickel? | 2026-04-15 |
| loc v. | 1961 Next-to-last Statement in Xero (#5) July 7 has it been meaningful [/] that i [/] wrote and rhymed [/] and pubbed [/] and loced and— [/] on that summer day of the illinois state fair— [/] talked for an afternoon with [/] wilson (bob) tucker? | 2026-04-13 |
| loc n. | [1960 Letter in Dynatron (#6) July–Aug. 14 Do anata? Anata wa nihongo wo benkyo wo snite imasu kara, kono tegami to loc wo nihongo ni kaite imasno ka? [translation You? Since you’re studying Japanese, are you writing this letter and loc in Japanese?] ] | 2026-04-13 |
| loc n. | 1960 Letter in Cry of the Nameless (#143) Oct. 16 Oh you pipple are clods! I fully expected to have Cry-habit licked this month. No Cry, no brainrot, no loc’s to write — bliss. | 2026-04-13 |
| ish n. | 1937 Imagination! Oct. 18 (advt.) ‘LASTA Usonano’ (‘Last USAmerican’ in Esp [sc. Esperanto], reviewd [sic] in this ish): Importd [sic] Rarity for Scientificuric Collectors. | 2026-04-10 |
| kipple n. | 1962 in Shangri-L’Affaires (#60) Jan.–Feb. 30 (editorial response to reader letter) I think this is a wonderful idea. Why, you know, the usual procedure for most fans is to throw away TAFF ballots and other kipple when they find them in fanzines. Now, under your system, all the completist-types would have to save TAFF ballots because each one would have a different newsletter on its obverse side. | 2026-04-10 |
| Akira slide n. | 2009 Corrupting an Angel on Shards of Dewprism (Geocities) She kicked out the back end, halting the bike with the well-known Akira Slide maneuver. | 2026-04-09 |
| Akira slide n. | [1999 Monday Night Cafe-Racing Review in ba.motorcycles (Usenet newsgroup) 29 Sept. Reaching escape velocity I then exited the roundabout straight at the group, locking the rear and pitching the Helix-hack sideways in an Akira-like slide that I was later told ‘Would have been a really really impressive highside’. ] | 2026-04-09 |
| Akira slide n. | 2025 Why Gainax’s ‘Gunbuster’ Post Is More Than Anime Rule of Cool Reference Fodder in Gizmodo 6 Nov. The ‘Akira slide’—an iconic shot of Kaneda sliding sideways on his bike in the 1988 movie adaptation of Akira—has become an icon of anime culture, referenced over and over in numerous cartoons and films, western and Japanese. | 2026-04-09 |
| Akira slide n. | 2013 Tweet 12 Sept. someday i need to pull off an AKIRA slide. | 2026-04-09 |
| Akira slide n. | 2018 in Crunchyroll 7 Dec. (title) You've Definitely Seen The ‘Akira Slide’ Before, Even If You Don’t Watch Anime. | 2026-04-09 |
| Akira slide n. | 2022 in Collider 28 Dec. (title) The 10 Best Uses of 'Akira Slide' in Movies & TV Series. | 2026-04-09 |
| neopro n. | 1960 Pleiades Pimples (#1) Jan. 15 There remains two matters to interest you, Joe Neopro: taxes and reviews. | 2026-04-08 |
| time travel v. | 1928 Traveling Into the Future, & Time Traveling in Amazing Stories Apr. 83/3 (letter) My theory on Time-traveling is, that if you can Time-travel, you are invisible and have no influence. | 2026-04-07 |
| fan film n. | 1956 Journal of the World Science Fiction Society (vol. 14, no. 4) Aug. 13 (title) PSFS To Present Fan Film In Color…. It is the first science fiction film (to our knowledge) in color, made by a science fiction club from an original story written by one of the club members. | 2026-04-06 |
| time travel v. | 1991 Bad Timing in Interzone (#54) Dec. 36/2 The man tells her that only certain people are allowed to time travel, and they are not allowed to interfere in any way, only observe. | 2026-04-06 |
| time travel v. | 2012 Living in the Eighties in Asimov’s Science Fiction Apr.–May 142 So you believe I time traveled? | 2026-04-06 |
| time travel v. | 1956 The Door Into Summer in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Dec. 70/1 I’m not the only person who has time-traveled. | 2026-04-06 |
| time travel v. | 1938 ‘Let Cymbals Ring!’ in Astounding Science-Fiction Dec. 129/2 Afraid of strain in the control dimension if I time-traveled, were they? Well—let it strain, say I! By one chance in a trillion, I have materialized in the Epoch of Major Personal Satisfaction. | 2026-04-06 |
| condom n. | 1999 Fanzine Review in No Award (#6) Fall–Winter 9/1 Southern fans know Guy H. Lillian III, Attorney at Law, as a long-standing member in condom. He had, after all, taken on the grueling task of bidding for NoLaCon II (as head of publications, a portentous position withal), and was a well-known feature on the con circuit before and after. | 2026-04-03 |
| conreport n. | 1949 Letter in Spacewarp (#31) Oct. (unpaged) This month’s WARP was swell, from cover to cover, but how the heck did you ever manage to get the Con report out so soon? | 2026-04-03 |
| condom n. | 1995 Ben’Zine Fumes in Ben’Zine (#5) Mar. 5 Far from being exclusive they have hosted, toasted, roasted, held us spellbound by their speeches, writings and art, in both zinedom and condom, an amazing number of times. | 2026-04-02 |
| condom n. | 1974 in Title (#33) Dec. (unpaged) Ben Indick has exposed fandom and condom for what it is: no different from medical, librarian or spelunking conventions. | 2026-04-02 |
| condom n. | 1968 The Couch in Psychotic (#23) Jan. (unpaged) I suspect the old rules will be retained, in the end, and no great harm will come to fandom or condom. | 2026-04-02 |
| BNF n. | 1948 Fantasy Amateur, Jr. 1 Mar. Special mailing put out in commemoration of the dead pneumococci who once dwelt happily in Chas Burbee, BNF. | 2026-04-01 |
| BNF n. | [1941 Letter in Le Zombie (#44) Nov.–Dec. 9 I’ve read letter sections, fanzines, etc. and now I open this big mouth of mine and yell in protest. You big name fans talk about stuff like ‘Yngvi is a louse.’ So I say….who in hell is Yngvi? And why is he a louse?] | 2026-04-01 |
| Mercutian adj. | 1908 The Solar System viii. 173 This is the sidereal period or true Mercutian year. [Ibid. 179] When Mercury was in a semi-fluid condition the action of the sun raised large tides and tidal friction would tend to increase the length of the Mercutian day and to make the periods of rotation and revolution identical. In 1896 Lowell seemingly confirmed Schiaparelli's ideas as to the period of rotation, but the observations are so difficult that the matter can hardly be considered as definitely determined. | 2026-04-01 |
| Mercutian n. 2 | 1922 Fire People in Argosy All-Story Weekly 28 Oct. xii. 710/2 I wondered what curious sort of metal this might be—so like copper in appearance. I doubted if it were copper, since even in this hot, moist air it seemed to have no property of oxidation. I asked Miela about it, and she gave me its Mercutian name at once; but of course that helped me not a bit. | 2026-03-31 |
| Mercutian n. 2 | 1931 Tetrahedra of Space in Wonder Stories Nov. v. 743/1 He drilled in the idea of rain, until he was sure he had made his point, securing various Mercutian expressions of disgust and dislike. He found a word for ‘rain’—really coined one, for it did not seem to exist in Mercutian. It was a combination of ‘water’ and ‘up,’ so as to be quite clear, with a double-ruffle of emphasis to characterize it. The etymology of the word was quite clear to all concerned. They knew what rain was, now. | 2026-03-31 |
| Mercutian n. 2 | 1932 Slaves of Mercury in Astounding Stories Sept. 107/2 Joan thrust the gag into the thick gash of a mouth, choking off a torrent of imprecations in the guttural Mercutian tongue. Then she proceeded to truss him, expertly, efficiently. [Ibid. 112/1] The guard exclaimed something In guttural Mercutian, rose hastily, and closed the open door and window. | 2026-03-31 |
| Mercutian n. 2 | 1941 Aerita of the Light Country in Super Science Novels Magazine Aug. iii. 22/2 It was weird. He felt as though with a leap he could sail twenty feet or more. Aerita was drawing him toward stairs where a winding flight went down into the palace. The interior sounds were floating up—running footsteps; men’s excited, frightened voices in the strange Mercutian language. | 2026-03-31 |
| Mercutian n. 2 | 1943 Spasm No. 1—The Inmost Planet in Lamppost (#1) Dec. 1/1
The heat-loving hoko of Mercury Sits and sweats in the sun with a smirk, or he Remains in his pit Where a fire is lit In which he can cool his dinner* curry. *This is the correct Mercutian accentuation. |
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| Mercutian adj. | 1938 Mercutian Adventure in Astounding Stories Feb. 101/1 The temperature might, in fact, approach or exceed -300° F. And Mercutian air—though it contains a high percentage of oxygen—is of such low density and pressure that there is little practical difference between exposure to it and exposure to the vacuum of the interplanetary void! | 2026-03-31 |
| Mercutian adj. | 1931 Tetrahedra of Space in Wonder Stories Nov. iv. 738/2 Aside from the vegetation which they were so methodically blasting, the Mercutian tetrahedra—for such Professor Hornby swore they were and such we later found them to be—had not yet come into real contact with the life of our planet, much less its master, Man. | 2026-03-31 |
| Mercutian adj. | 1961 Tongues of the Moon in Amazing Stories Sept. 16/2 ‘I haven’t time or ability to think straight now. But I have thought of this. Earth could be wiped out. If so, we on the Moon are the only human beings left alive in the universe. And...’ ‘There are the Martian colonies. And the Ganymedan and Mercutian bases.’ | 2026-03-31 |
| Mercutian adj. | 1956 Review in Astounding Science Fiction Oct. 156/1 [Reviewing Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury] This is also a SF-detective blend reminiscent of Asimov’s current experiments in the form: sabotage, attempted murder, successful murder (with gravitation as the weapon), a mad robot (whose madness is the crucial clue), weird Mercutian rocklife—they’re all here. | 2026-03-31 |
| Mercutian adj. | 1922 Fire People in Argosy All-Story Weekly 21 Oct. vi. 496/1 After a time they reached the Mercutian vehicle. It was a cubical box, with a pyramid-shaped top, some thirty feet square at the base, and evidently constructed of metal, a gleaming white nearer like silver than anything else Alan could think of. He saw that it had a door on the side facing him, and several little slitlike windows, covered by a thick, transparent substance which might have been glass. | 2026-03-31 |
| Mercutian adj. | 1941 Masquerade in Astounding Science-Fiction Mar. 57/1 Old Creepy was down in the control room, sawing lustily on his screeching fiddle. On the sun-blasted plains outside the Mercutian Power Center, the Roman Candles, snatching their shapes from Creepy’s mind, had assumed the form of Terrestrial hillbillies and were cavorting through the measures of a square dance. | 2026-03-31 |
| Mercutian n. 1 | 1931 Tetrahedra of Space in Wonder Stories Nov. v. 742/1 There was emphatic approval. Mercury it was—the planet with one side always to the Sun. So far, so good. Marston took my other plaque—the relief map of Earth. ‘Earth—Earth.’ Yes, the Mercutian recognized it. He had seen it thus from space. | 2026-03-31 |
| Mercutian n. 1 | 1964 Tongues of the Moon (1970) 80 If they decide to battle, they will have to deal not only with us but with the Ganymedans and Mercutians. | 2026-03-31 |
| Mercutian n. 1 | 1950 2,000 Years On iv. 67 The Venusian was flabby and doughlike, but not too unusual in appearance, while the Martian was big-headed, red-skinned, and seven feet tall. Both he and his interplanetary colleague were attired in regal looking garments and seemed to have no difficulty in breathing the oxy-hydrogen atmosphere. The Mercutian, however, was breathing heavily, as though he found the air too dense. He was enormous in height, fully ten feet tall, ridiculously thin, his body apparently encased in black scales. | 2026-03-31 |
| Mercutian n. 1 | 1941 Aerita of the Light Country in Super Science Novels Magazine Aug. iii. 22/2 He was a young Viking Earthman; six feet four; obviously a strange sight here to these little Mercutians... In one of the upper halls he and Aerita encountered three of four little men. They were perhaps five and a half feet tall; some of them shorter—grey-skinned men with black and silver streaked hair, bushy to the base of the neck. Flowing, glistening fabric-robes of gaudy colors enveloped them. | 2026-03-31 |
| Mercutian n. 1 | 1910 Reminiscences of Edward Everett Hale in Outlook 12 Nov. 581/1 Hale is one of the men whom I should like to have shown to the Martians, Mercutians, et al., as a specimen of what old Mother Earth can do when she tries. | 2026-03-31 |
| Mercutian n. 1 | 1952 Rocket Jockey i. 1 After the qualifying run to the Moon, there would be only one ship allowed for each planet, but now even Mercury had three entries, while Mars and Earth each had twelve. Soft-spoken, smiling Venusans in oil-stained nylon brushed shoulders with narrow-eyed, suspicious Callistans. Laughing Mercutians bumped into slim, leather-clad Europans. But even in the confusion, Earthmen and Martians avoided each other. Mars had won the last three Classics by what Earth considered unfair trickery, and there was bitter feeling between the two planets. | 2026-03-31 |
| Mercutian n. 1 | 1990 If Cats Could Fly... (1996) 21 It is perhaps kinder to the human race not to tell the rest of the story of that night. [...] ‘No wonder it’s called the Forbidden Planet. Nobody would want to come here, if they knew what it was like.’ ‘They could show it to the Mercutians, as an Awful Example...’ | 2026-03-31 |
| Mercutian n. 1 | 1922 Fire People in Argosy All-Story Weekly 21 Oct. ii. 486/1 ‘This light I conceive to be the chief weapon of warfare of the Mercutians,’ the professor went on. ‘There has been some talk of those two meteors being signals. That’s all nonsense. They were not signals—they were missiles. It was an act of aggression.’ | 2026-03-31 |
| fan fiction n. | 2017 The Reference Library in Analog Science Fiction & Fact Sept.–Oct. 198/1 Some readers step in and write their own stories in familiar universes. This is fanfiction (aka fanfic), and the internet is filled with billions of words of it. | 2026-03-30 |
| fan fiction n. | 1938 Fantascience Digest Mar.–Apr. (unpaged) (advt.) SCIENCE-ADVENTURE STORIES; a quarterly publication containing the best in amateur fiction. Besides featuring excellent fan fiction, SAS contains fiction by Ralph Milne Farley, L.A. Eshbach, Eando Binder, Oliver E. Saari and various others. | 2026-03-30 |
| time loop n. | 2006 The Teller of Time in Analog Science Fiction & Fact July–Aug. 139/1 If he didn’t get back, he’d be in an endless time loop: reliving his life to the point of doing the experiment, then going back and living it again—and again and again. | 2026-03-30 |
| croggling adj. | ?1956 Letter in Umbra (#16) (unpaged) I liked Son of Univac, too. Real croggling stuff. | 2026-03-27 |
| croggling adj. | 1984 Letter to Robert S. Bravard 25 Apr. in 1984: Selected Letters (2000) 90 Royalty statement arrived from NAL on Driftglass yesterday: They’re claiming that, after five printings and a bookclub sale, the thing still hasn’t earned out its initial $6,000 advance in thirteen years now. $415.25 to go, they say. This is croggling, but we’ve already written them about it once; and they stick to their story. | 2026-03-27 |
| croggling adj. | 1962 Letter in Famous Monsters Nov. 4/2 Tin Age Robot was filled with those mind-croggling puns & sick humor. | 2026-03-27 |
| croggling adj. | 1969 Response to Jack Williamson in Science Fiction Review (#32) Aug. 51/2 I like emotional involvement, strong opinion, and I’m not afeard to show my inner self, ugly as it sometimes is. So...as a reflection of my character and personality, SFR will continue to be wide open to informational letters and emotional tirades as well...with the hope that the tirades lead to some truth…or inspire it…or are simply croggling to read. | 2026-03-27 |
| croggling adj. | 1964 Conventional Approach in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Mar. 108/1 Again, by today’s standards, there was nothing earth-croggling about the program. The principal entertainment was a showing of the old silent UFA film, Metropolis, which didn’t offer nearly as many weird effects as the fannish baseball game the following day. | 2026-03-27 |
| croggling adj. | 1981 Danse Macabre vi. 163 Modern Hollywood has apparently decided that, as the day of the privately owned gasoline vehicle enters its late afternoon, the automobile in most cases must be reserved for funny car chases (as in Foul Play and the cheerfully mind-croggling Grand Theft Auto) or a kind of sappy reverence (The Driver). | 2026-03-27 |
| croggling adj. | 1960 Catch Trap (#92) 12 I imagine this is what the performers in ‘danger’ acts learn to live with; they become adrenalin addicts and feel only half alive unless they are all hopped up for superhuman effort and danger. Rather a croggling thought. | 2026-03-27 |
| croggling adj. | 1982 Edge in My Voice in Edge in My Voice (1985) 288 The damned thing [sc. William Stout and William Service’s The Dinosaurs] is already a trade paperback bestseller, so you probably don’t need me to rhapsodize over it, but in the unlikely event you missed hearing about it, this is the very latest we know about dinosaurs, presented in mind-croggling paintings by the multi-talented Stout and in delicious, innovative text by Service. | 2026-03-27 |
| croggling adj. | 2009 Makers iii. 243 One suggestion that drew Gibbons’s attention and admiration was to approach venture capitalists and beg them for the capital to sue Disney and then use the settlements from the suits to pay back the VCs. This mind-croggling Ponzi scheme is the closest thing to a business model we’ve yet heard of from the chip-addled techno-hippies of the New Work and its post-boom incarnation. | 2026-03-27 |
| croggle v. | 2008 Conventional Reportage: Bouchercon 38 in File 770 (#154) Nov. 20/2 I normally show up around 6 the first day of a con, but was somewhat croggled to find that registration closed at 5:30! | 2026-03-27 |
| croggle v. | 1975 in Descant (#24) Aug. 3 I croggled. I had never heard this man’s name before. | 2026-03-27 |
| croggle v. | 1961 Golden Apple (#1) 2 I asked Arthur, ‘Well, how does business look to you, so far this year?’ He croggled. | 2026-03-27 |
| croggled adj. | 2003 Mimosa (#30) Aug. 22 Fans…were croggled by the non-existence of Joan W. Carr and Carl Brandon. | 2026-03-27 |
| croggled adj. | 1976 Rumblings in Yandro (#235) Apr. (unpaged) I was a trifle croggled by newspaper accounts of people who took their brand-new $2 bills to the post office, had a stamp affixed, and then cancelled, to prove they were First Day of Issue. | 2026-03-27 |
| croggled adj. | 1957 Letter in Hyphen (#18) May 37 I was utterly and absolutely croggled by this; in fact, in most places, it was so funny I couldn’t laugh, but merely sat, stunned. | 2026-03-27 |
| faanish adj. | 1955 Wetzcon in Void (#5) 29 Ellis thought it would be a daring stunt to give the ticket man a real faaaaaanish quote card instead of the fakefan things sold by the management. | 2026-03-25 |
| faanish adj. | 1951 in Quandry (#13) Aug.–Sept. 2 Short satirical fiction or faanish fiction, articles, etc. wanted. | 2026-03-25 |
| faan n. | 1953 Letter in Mote (#6) May 25 The cover was beautiful. I am astonished that you painted each copy separately. That shows you are a real faaaan. | 2026-03-25 |
| faan n. | 1951 How Dull Was My Weekend in Quandry (#15) Nov. 4 ‘We’re faaaaaaans’ the tallest character announced proudly. | 2026-03-25 |
| eyetracks n. | 1952 Southwestercon in Shangri-LA (#32) Fall 11 The unquestioned prize among the artwork was a magnificent and perfectly preserved Paul original cover from the dear dead days, a work which had top bidder Ackerman’s eyetracks all over it from the moment he first spied it in the art exhibit. | 2026-03-23 |
| eyetracks n. | 1949 in Spacewarp (#31) Oct. (unpaged) The following are all good items, and it breaks my heart to part with them…. Two mags — Fantastic Adv. Sept. ’39 — exc. — not even eyetracks — 50¢. | 2026-03-23 |
| congoer n. | 1950 in Postwarp Feb. 2 (letter) Just frankly I can’t see anything against having the next convention site chosen by each crop of con goers…[ellipsis in orig.] | 2026-03-20 |
| craft n. | 1977 The Jupiter Theft xxx. 353 He and Li had honed themselves for one purpose: to land the spidery craft on the surface of Jupiter’s second-largest moon. | 2026-03-19 |
| craft n. | 1907 On the Martian Way in Broadway Magazine Nov. 148/2 The lights flared up over the vessel, hull shutters slid suddenly into place, and the craft was sealed up for her long flight through the heavens. [Ibid. 151/2] The vast concourse sheltered a busy crowd, for not only was the Trenton sailing for Mars that forenoon, but a Jupiter liner was due at any moment…. Thirty minutes later he was aboard the Trenton…when a sudden lightness in his legs and a lack of weight in the suitcase he held in his hand told him that the boat was sealed, and that the gravitation screens were in place, while the sudden succeeding rise in temperature gave evidence that the craft was under way and scudding through the thin layer of the Earth’s atmosphere. | 2026-03-19 |
| craft n. | 1980 Sundiver iv. 48 When laser propulsion for pre-Contact interstellar craft was developed, they were able to drop robot ships that could hover and, by the thermodynamics of using a high temperature laser, they could dump excess heat and cool the probe’s interior. | 2026-03-19 |
| craft n. | 2025 Gut Check in Analog Science Fiction & Fact Jan.–Feb. 144/1 The remaining four astronauts would remain on orbit to begin assembling the core modules of Luna Two, an orbital station, which would support the reusable Wyverns and Dragonets…. Castor and Pollux would return three months later to bring fresh crew home, a process that would be repeated every six months, with up to six Wyvern and Dragonet craft. [Ibid. 145/1] ‘Pollux is in lunar orbit.’ ‘Welcome to the neighborhood,’ Johnson broadcast to their sister craft. | 2026-03-19 |
| craft n. | 2006 In Fury Born xliii. 581 Of course, there was really no pressing need to pursue a purely intrasystemic craft. Where could it go, after all? | 2026-03-19 |
| craft n. | 1925 When the Green Star Waned in Weird Tales Apr. 188/1 Each craft bore the symbol of its home-world. The Mharzions bore the Looped Dart in gold, even as we of Venhez painted upon the nose of ours the Looped Cross—but the symbols of the worlds are too well known to require description. | 2026-03-19 |
| craft n. | 1900 The Struggle for Empire iii. 47 A vast fleet was assembled at a short distance from London, ready to dash into space…. There were in all nearly 300 huge first-class battleships, 800 of the second class, 1,600 third, and…a countless host of small craft that performed the same functions as the torpedo-boats of the old days of war on the sea. | 2026-03-19 |
| craft n. | 1997 Destiny’s Road 18 Cavorite had carried half the colony from orbit down to the Crab. Leaving Spiral Town the same craft carried forty in roomy comfort along with a hydroponics garden, stores of seeds and fertilized eggs, considerable medical facilities and lab equipment. | 2026-03-19 |
| craft n. | 1934 Triplanetary in Amazing Stories Jan. ii. 28/1 Through gate after massive gate they went, until finally they were out in open space, shooting toward distant Tellus at the maximum acceleration of which their small craft was capable. | 2026-03-19 |
| craft n. | 1944 Highwayman of the Void in Planet Stories Fall iv. 110/1 Installation of pyros in interplanetary craft was the most forbidden thing of the starways. | 2026-03-19 |
| craft n. | 1952 Big Pill in Planet Stories Sept. 82/2 Beneath the spaceboat the desert rolled…. Then, all of a sudden, before the eastward hurtling craft, it was daylight, as the tiny sun burst over the horizon. | 2026-03-19 |
| craft n. | 1968 The Last Starship From Earth xii. 143 As the falling craft came closer to the planet, his wonderment became knowledge. | 2026-03-19 |
| spacecraft n. | 1929 Night-Thing in Weird Tales July 104/2 I saw the first of the great space craft….Not from Earth were those ships. | 2026-03-18 |
| spacecraft n. | 1953 Little Joe in Astounding Science Fiction Sept. 40/1 Little Joe was a cargo ship, broad of diameter in the loading locks, massive of bulkhead, and cramped of fo’c’s’le, which in spacecraft had returned to its traditional place in the otherwise useless compartments of the tapering prow. | 2026-03-18 |
| spacecraft n. | 1972 In the Ocean of Night in Worlds of If May–June 21/1 The circling satellite…clearly resembled a beacon for approaching spacecraft. | 2026-03-18 |
| spacecraft n. | 2025 North Station Blues in Analog Science Fiction & Fact July–Aug. 10/1 With a tethered platform, you could raise a spacecraft above the thickest part of the atmosphere and eliminate much of the need for a heavy launch vehicle. | 2026-03-18 |
| completist n. | 1938 Science Fiction News Letter (#54) 3 Dec. 3 (section header) For the Completist. | 2026-03-17 |
| combozine n. | 1946 Pacificon Fourth World Science Fiction Convention News (#2) June 15 DO YOU WANT TO HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE ‘OH!’ AND ‘AH!’ ABOUT YOUR LOVELY FANZINE? WELL, BUB, DO YOU? Then get busy and make up a special edition to be included in the PACIFICON COMBOZINE. We want everybody to be represented—and that means YOU! | 2026-03-16 |
| ship n. 1 | [1663 tr. Lucian of Samosata Certain Select Dialogues of Lucian 122 The Nephelocentaures…made to our ship as fast as they could…. About evening tide following we came to a City…. This City is seated in the air between the Pleiades, and the Hyades, somewhat lower than the Zodiake.] | 2026-03-13 |