not found on or originating from the planet Earth
It came to me that this was the language used by a captive mind I had known slightly, in my dreamsβa mind from a large asteroid on which had survived much of the archaic life and lore of the primal planet whereof it formed a fragment. At the same time I recalled that this level of the archives was devoted to volumes dealing with the non-Terrestrial planets.
You may have heard by now that the biologists assign a nonterrestrial origin to the creature you brought up from Atlantica.
As for me, my scientific turn of mind, which repudiated the supernatural, led me to seek an explanation of the problem in the non-terrestrial side of Knygathin Zhaumβs ancestry. I felt sure that the forces of alien biology, the properties of a trans-stellar life-substance, were somehow involved.
And your non-terrestrial friend Mr. Spock as well.
Patiently toiling in humble consulates on many a remote world, Junior Corps officers, ever-mindful of the welfare of emergent non-Terrestrial peoples, labored on in their unending quest to bring the fruits of modern technology to supplement native arts and crafts, enriching their halcyon days with the awareness of the profound effect their efforts might have on entire populations.
A lot of the plant species were certainly non-terrestrial.
antedating 1936
H.P. Lovecraft, 'The Shadow Out of Time'
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