Neptunian n. 1
a native or inhabitant of the planet Neptune
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1870 Other Worlds than Ours 173
The Neptunians would be wholly unable to see Uranus.
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1930 Struggle for Neptune in Wonder Stories Quarterly Fall 95/1
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Henrik Dahl Juve
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These Neptunians were huge savages, rivaling in weight even the largest elephants.
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1946 Outlaw World in Startling Stories Winter 30/1
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Edmond Hamilton
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The place was packed with the most motley, hard-bitten interplanetary throng that could be assembled in the System. Jovians, Venusians, Neptunians, Earthmen, and men of every other planet, all of them wearing weapons and all of them drinking and carousing with equally hard-eyed women.
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1955 Day After Eternity in Fantastic Feb. 56/2
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Lawrence Chandler
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Oh, yes. The Expedition that finally succeeded in liberating the Neptunians. Noble effort.
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1963 The Encounter in Amazing Stories June 100/2
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J. G. Ballard
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I wonder what Charles is planning for the Congress? A Neptunian? Or perhaps a whole delegation from Proxima Centauri.
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1977 in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Aug. 158/2
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Neptunians secrete protective bubbles around them when in danger.
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1985 Black Ship 121
Christopher Rowley
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They screamed for a pilot as the other Neptunians stumbled out beside them. Together they ran for the planes.
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2011 Flying Rabbits in In Other Worlds (2012) 19
Margaret Atwood
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As our father was an entomologist and all-round naturalist, we also had ample access to scientific drawings of, for instance, pond life under the microscope, which may have contributed to our ideas of what Martians and Venusians and Neptunians and Saturnians should look like.
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