space piracy n.

piracy carried out against space vessels or other worlds

  • 1937 Dr. A. Carr in Thrilling Wonder Stories Apr. 12/1 page image Dr. Arch Carr

    I wanted to write a story about space piracy and a lone wolf crusader who…waged a fierce and single-handed warfare against these buccaneers of the skies.

  • 1946 G. O. Smith Impossible Pirate in Astounding Science Fiction Dec. 60/2 page image George O. Smith bibliography

    Black Morgan was a space pirate and the place to look for him was in space. That space piracy was impossible for divers reasons seemed to make little difference to Black Morgan. He did it.

  • 1949 H. Hasse Eternal Zemmd Must Die! in Planet Stories Spring 7/2 page image Henry Hasse bibliography

    The man had been sentenced for murder or space-piracy.

  • 1963 R. Zelazny King Solomon's Ring in Fantastic Oct. 61/2 page image Roger Zelazny

    No more professional advice on space piracy.

  • 1990 W. McCarthy What I did with the OTV Grissom in Aboriginal Science Fiction May–June 15/2 page image Wil McCarthy

    You are witnesses to the world’s first act of space piracy.

  • 2009 C. Willrich Sails the Morne in Asimov’s Science Fiction June 83 page image Chris Willrich bibliography

    What little space piracy goes on, goes on closer to the Sun.

Research requirements

antedating 1937
Research History
Jeff Prucher submitted a 1990 cite from a letter by Lee Smith in Quantum. Fred Galvin submitted a 1949 cite from Henry Hasse's "Eternal Zemmd Must Die!" Fred Galvin submitted a 1946 cite from George O. Smith's "The Impossible Pirate".

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