space-burned adj.
having a space burn n.; cf. space-tanned adj.
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1942 Collision Orbit in Astounding Science-Fiction July 81/1
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Jack Williamson
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But a slow brown smile softened old Jim Drake’s rugged, space-burned face, and the old, eager light came slowly back to his eyes. [Ibid. 82/1] Drake pushed away his papers, with awkward space-burned hands.
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1944 Veil of Astellar in Thrilling Wonder Stories Spring 57/2
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Leigh Brackett
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His hair was as black as mine used to be, his skin space-burned dark and leathery.
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1946 Earth Slaves to Space in Amazing Stories Sept. 39/2
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Richard S. Shaver
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They peered through the darkness in the cell and one tall, space-burned female, her burly body aglitter with metal ornaments, and with a long dis-ray hung on each hip, her leather harness chased with figures of the outlandish animals of Tiran, cried: ‘Here they are; two slaves who flaunt their murder of our highest and our best, Divnani, the kindest, most worthy of all the Tiran women!’
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1969 Troubling of Star in Venture Science Fiction Magazine May 98/1
Bryce Walton
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His shaven head and face, in contrast to Rubin’s hollow-eyed pallor, was space-burned to dark mahogany.
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1991 Judson’s Eden 17
Keith Laumer
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As always, the sight of the space-burned tugs and shuttles in their ranked cradles in the ready area gave him a lift of spirits no less than the majestic bulk of the great deep-space hulls across the field, before the bright-lit service hangers.
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2011 Up Against It xxvii. 359
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Laura J. Mixon
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I only caught a glimpse. A young man, I think. A big white guy with a spaceburned face. One of his arms was missing.
Research requirements
antedating 1942
Earliest cite
"Will Stewart" (a.k.a. Jack Williamson), in Astounding
Research History
Fred Galvin submitted a cite from a 1977 reprint of Leigh Brackett's 1944 "The Veil of Astellar".Fred Galvin submitted a 1969 cite from Bryce Walton's "Troubling of a Star".
Fred Galvin submitted a 1963 cite from Jerome Bixby's "The Bad Life".
Fred Galvin submitted a 1946 cite from Richard S. Shaver's "Earth Slaves to Space".
Bee Ostrowsky submitted a 2011 cite from M. J. Locke.
Fred Galvin submitted a 1942 cite from "Will Stewart"'s "Collision Orbit", in Astounding.
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