terrestrian adj.
of Earth
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1930
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John W. Campbell, Jr.
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In the meantime the Terrestrian and Venerian governments were already preparing vigorously for further inroads.
Black Star Passes in Amazing Stories Quarterly Fall 500/1
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1940
Hanson was at the Visaphone on the Terrestrian Councilโs wave length.
Future's Fair in Astonishing Stories Oct. 64/2 -
1946
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Hal Clement
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Several winged aircraft were parked in the open near each strip, and a single machine, similar in exterior design to the terrestrian lifeboat.
Cold Front in Astounding Science-Fiction July 37/1 -
1949
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Isaac Asimov
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Well, to put it quickly, I think it was the Terrestrian Ambassador who somehow presented us with the most evidence.
Mother Earth in Astounding Science Fiction May 74/1 -
1949
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In fact, I imported half a dozen Terrestrians five years back on agricultural laborer visas so they could oversee the robots. Now they can do wonders with the land, you know. Where they spit, corn grows fifteen feet high. Well, that helped a little. And using Terrestrian seed helped. But even if you grow Terrestrian grain, its seed wonโt hold the next year.
Mother Earth in Astounding Science Fiction May 77/2 -
1951
John W. Campbell, Jr.
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.
Moon Is Hell! 10 -
1953
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George O. Smith
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By this time Dusty figured that he might as well let Gant Nerley have it cold and hard. It would show Gant that the mighty Marandanian was no more distant from the lusty chimpanzee than the terrestrian.
Troubled Star in Startling Stories Feb. 48/2 -
1953
Robert A. Heinlein
The only extra-terrestrial among Maxโs charges was a spider puppy from the terrestrian planet Hespera.
Starman Jones (1975) vii. 71
Research requirements
antedating 1930
Earliest cite
John W. Campbell, Jr., 'The Black Star Passes'
Research History
Fred Galvin submitted a 1951 cite from John W. Campbell, Jr.'s "The Moon is Hell!".Fred Galvin submitted a 1930 cite from John W. Campbell, Jr.'s "The Black Star Passes".
Fred Galvin submitted a cite from a 1951 reprint of Isaac Asimov's 1949 "Mother Earth"; Mike Christie verified it in the original publication.
Fred Galvin submitted a 1950 cite from Raymond F. Jones's "Tools of the Trade".
Fred Galvin submitted a 1940 cite from Vincent Reid's "The Future's Fair".
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