terrestial n.

Despite his hunger Forepaugh did not dare eat any of it, knowing that this species, strange to him, might easily be one of the many on Inra that are poisonous to terrestials. [Ibid. 157/2] ‘What the hell’s going on here?’ asked the cocky little terrestial who was skipper, stepping out and surveying the castaways.

I opened Astonishing Stories recently on a picture of a piece of travel machinery much more marvellous than Prince Camaralzamen’s flying horse. It is lit by Aladdin lamps and guarded by two ‘terrestials’; for in these stories people of our earth are never called human beings.

Before the night is out, all terrestials on Mars will be imprisoned or dead.

‘He shouldn’t have died as he did. Something went wrong. What?’…‘I don’t know. Terrestials are still something of an unknown quantity.’

The rumour’s been fostered, I guess, by the Spatial Anti-Miscegenation Laws of twenty-seventy, forbidding Terrestials and Uffitsians to marry in case they beget freaks.

The TV and radio ads clearly imply that these constituents of the American diet circa 1980 are the staple food throughout the galaxy, even in the Klingon deep space empire. If we are going to enlighten terrestials and lift their cultural tastes, this is as good a place to start as any.