Earthward adj.

facing toward Earth

  • 1929 E. Hamilton Other Side of the Moon in Amazing Stories Quarterly Fall 530/2 page image Edmond Hamilton bibliography

    Without that shield above it the air about us would rush forth into the void instantly and leave this far side of the moon as dead and cold and barren as the earthward side!

  • 1936 Planeteer (#3) 13 page image

    Strange machines rear themselves starkly against the bleak landscape, and for a brief interval they labor on the lifeless plain—then silently they vanish, part by part, into the ship that spawned them, and the Planeteer lifts his ship and sends it in a wift arc to the Earthward side—and far behind him slips the strange rocket of the Avenger, waiting for the Planeteer to strike...

  • 1946 M. W. Wellman Solar Invasion in Startling Stories Fall ii. 18/1 page image Manly Wade Wellman bibliography

    Quickly Joan set the beam-mechanism which would serve as a tow-rope between her own craft and the Comet, and within five minutes they had cleared Asteroid No. 697 on the Earthward trail.

  • 1948 Planet Comics Nov. 32

    Future explorers will find a great variety of danger and adventure on this, the smallest world of the solar system. Mercury is only 36,000,000 miles from the sun, closer than any other planet. Because it does not rotate, the sunside is a molten inferno, while the earthward side has eternal night, and is frozen solid.

  • 1951 J. W. Campbell The Moon Is Hell! 10 John W. Campbell, Jr. bibliography

    Dr. James Harwood Garner was the leader of this party of carefully chosen men, and in the name of the United States of America, he claimed the so-called dark half of the moon. Half a world! Millions, tens of millions of square miles of utterly barren surface, surface never seen by Terrestrian eyes, save when, five years before, Capt. Roger Wilson had circumnavigated the moon twice, landing for two brief days on the Earthward side, and had claimed that.

  • 1983 F. Pohl Lord of the Skies in Amazing Stories July 137 page image Frederik Pohl bibliography

    Michael swore unbelievingly…. They never went on the Earthward side of the power satellites! Their propulsive systems were to weak to risk in a closer orbit.

  • 2003 K. Lowachee Burndive 347 page image Karin Lowachee bibliography

    Sure, now more than ever most of the stations and merchant ships in the Rim and beyond supported the peace talks, but the captain’s reticence about divulging details about his past still rankled Hubcentral and those within their immediate reach. Which meant a lot of people on the Earthward side of the Spokes still thought deep spacers were odd and suspicious, and worst of all too independent, and apparently these paranoid Hubcentralists counted more than everyone from the Rim to the Dragons.


Research requirements

antedating 1929

Earliest cite

Edmond Hamilton, in Amazing Stories Quarterly

Research History
Fred Galvin submitted a 1946 cite from Manly Wade Wellman's "The Solar Invasion".
Fred Galvin submitted a 1948 cite from Planet Comics.
Fred Galvin submitted a cite from a 1957 reprint of Robert Heinlein's "Requiem" which Mike Christie verified in its 1940 first publication.
Fred Galvin submitted a 1951 cite from John W. Campbell, Jr.'s "The Moon Is Hell!".
Ben Ostrowsky submitted a 2003 cite from Karen Lowachee.
Ben Ostrowsky submitted a 1936 cite from the Planeteer fanzine, perhaps by James Blish.
Jesse Sheidlower submitted a 1929 cite from Edmond Hamilton, in Amazing Stories Quarterly.

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