a person born on Earth; people born on Earth collectively
Welcome to Athanata…the Planet of the Immortals. Gladly we receive the noble Earthborn, for like you, our pioneers fell from out the sky.
Venusian natives were warned off the streets; henceforth none but the Earthborn could show their faces by daylight.
The old man is breaking down under Star Flight. He’s the oldest Earth-born on board the ship.
These are the folks who arrived via space craft or teleportal (for definition of teleportal, see Galac-Ticks, Issue 11).—They usually cannot be distinguished from the Earth-born except through astute psychic detective work.
They say that’s what drove people to the Farside: the constant reminder of what they had lost, always there in the sky. It must have been hard, especially to the Earthborn. Whatever the reason, no-one had lived on the Nearside for almoost a century. All the original settlements had dwindled as people had moved to the comforting empty sky of Farside.
If he could hurt even ten Earthborn, the news would humiliate millions; the dead deserved that much.
We have some Earthborn here, still.
She was Syl the Firstborn, Syl the Earthborn. Syl the Invader.
antedating 1940
Malcolm Jameson, "Quicksands of Youthwardness"
Besides antedatings, we would like further cites from any date
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