Earther n.
a native or inhabitant of Earth
Demonyms
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1952 Make Mine Mars in Science Fiction Adventures Nov. 73/2
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C. M. Kornbluth
ATTN MCGILLICUDDY RE CLIENT RELATIONS NEED SOONEST ILLUMINATED SCROLL PRESENT HOMER WITHERSPOON PRESIDENT FROSTBITE HONORING HIM 40 YEARS MEMBERSHIP FROSTBITE PLANETARY PARTY USUAL SENTIMENTS NOTE MUST BE TERRESTIAL STYLE ART IF NOT ACTUAL WORK EARTHER ACCOUNT ANTIBEM PREJUDICE HERE FRBBUO END.
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1958 Stepsons of Terra 29
Robert Silverberg
He had been visited by an Earther, and a Sirian girl had maneuvered him into eating dinner with her.
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1961 Satisfaction Guaranteed in Galaxy Dec. 106/2
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Joy Leache
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‘I’ll have to find a dentist right away.’ ‘What’s a dentist?’ Man who fixes your teeth.’ ‘But we don’t have teeth,’ Hrom said. ‘I forgot,’ Mis Featherpenny moaned. ‘Oh, Lord, I guess I’ll have to go all the way back to Earth.’ Hrom shook her head. ‘There are a lot of Earthers living on Darius IV. They must have a dentist. There’s a ship every morning.’
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1966 Among the Hairy Earthmen in Galaxy Magazine Aug. 90/2
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R. A. Lafferty
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Even today, the Eretzi or Earthers haven’t the details of it right in their histories.
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1968 Reefs of Earth 20
R. A. Lafferty
Wherever they stopped, there were always a few Earthers who called them goblins and buggers and neanderthals, and who hated them.
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1986 Demons i. 19
J. M. Dillard
So you see…what marrying an Earther has brought me.
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1989 Lost Years iii. 72
J. M. Dillard
Silencing the bullies who had challenged Spock as an outsider, as an Earther who had no business claiming his Vulcan heritage.
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1990 Doctor's Orders vii. 188
Diane Duane
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You are interfering with a mission team of the Klingon Empire, Earther.
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1991 Man Who Would Be Kzin in L. Niven et al. Man-Kzin Wars IV 264
Greg Bear
S. M. Stirling
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Even after a decade, the words war and enemy still carried a strong flavor of obscenity to most Earthers.
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1993 From Depths vi. 72
Why then would they summon—he was able to keep most of the contempt from his voice—‘Earthers?’
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1994 Passing Fancy i. 25
Same as when Earthers do it in science fiction movies, I guess.
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1995 Brightness Reef (1996) 10
David Brin
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Nowadays, Dad says I should read the new hoon writers, those trying to go past imitating old-time Earthers, coming up with literature by and for our own kind.
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1998 Storage in Interzone (#132) June 34/2
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Alexander Glass
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The Earther was in full ceremonial gear, worn over a sky-blue evening gown which trailed along the floor.
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2008 Asimov’s Science Fiction Apr. 173
The squid isn’t what Earthers think of squid, but an ocean-faring creature from one of the nearby planets.
Research requirements
antedating 1952
Earliest cite
C.M. Kornbluth, "Make Mine Mars"
Research History
Douglas Winston submitted a cite from an undated Ace books reprint of Robert Silverberg's "Stepsons of Terra": which Mike Christie verified in its first publication in an Ace Double in 1958.Fred Galvin submitted a 1968 cite from R.A. Lafferty's "The Reefs of Earth".
Fred Galvin submitted a cite from a 1984 reprint of R.A. Lafferty's "Among the Hairy Earthmen", and later was able to verify it in its 1966 first publication.
Fred Galvin submitted a 1959 cite from Robert Silverberg's "The Planet Killers": Alistair Durie was able to check the story's first publication ("This World Must Die!" by "Ivar Jorgenson" Science Fiction Adventures; August, 1957) and found that the word was not used there.
Fred Galvin submitted a cite from a 1958 reprint of C.M. Kornbluth's "Make Mine Mars": Mike Christie verified this in its first publication (Science Fiction Adventures, November 1952).
Bee Ostrowsky submitted a 1961 cite from Joy Leache.
The earliest cite in the OED database was from 1986.
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