Ganymedian n.
a native or inhabitant of Ganymede, the largest satellite of Jupiter
Also Ganymedean.
Demonyms
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1928
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Frank J. Brueckel, Jr.
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Navara gave a little cry of joy and flung herself into the arms of the Ganymedean. [Ibid. 732/2] He looked at the Ganymedean inquisitively.
Moon Men in Amazing Stories Nov. 731/2 -
1931
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Joslyn Maxwell
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Ernst slowly raised his hands over his head in a gesture of peace, but the Ganymedian evidently did not understand, for it levelled the weapon.
Outpost on the Moon in Wonder Stories 1015/2 -
1943
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Raymond F. Jones
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I know about the Korphs and the Titans and the Phobosians and the Ganymedians.
Swimming Lesson in Astounding Science-Fiction Apr. 10/2 -
1950
Robert A. Heinlein
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The shelter…was jammed with people, some of them in ship suits and some of them Ganymedeans.
Farmer in Sky ix. 88 -
1959
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Philip K. Dick
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Any group of people as inventive as the Ganymedeans could be expected to show creativity in whatever field they entered.
War Game in Galaxy Science Fiction Dec. 92/2 -
1992
Charles Sheffield
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She herself had never found anything wrong with the old nondecimal twenty-four-hour/sixty-minute/sixty-second system, although the Ganymedeans mocked it as being as old-fashioned as fathoms, feet, fortnights, and furlongs.
Cold as Ice (1993) x. 151 -
2016
The Ganymedeans contract the Order [of Planetary Engineers] to adapt Callisto’s environment.
Terraforming ii. 87
Research requirements
antedating 1928
Earliest cite
Frank Breuckel, in Amazing Stories
Research History
Dan Clore located and Alisdair Durie submitted a 1934 cite from Clark Ashton Smith's "The Plutonian Drug".Fred Galvin submitted a 1947 cite from Henry Hasse's "Trail of the Astrogar".
Fred Galvin submitted a 1948 cite from Murray Leinster's "Space-Can".
Fred Galvin submitted a cite from a 1953 reprint of Fredric Brown's 1944 "And the Gods Laughed".
Bee Ostrowsky submitted a 1928 cite from Frank Breuckel, in Amazing Stories.
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