space-born adj. 1
(of a person) born in space, rather than on a planet
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1940 Million Years to Conquer in Startling Stories Nov. 19/1
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Henry Kuttner
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You are space-born, Ardath. You cannot quite realize that only on a planet can a man find a home.
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1952 Empty Bottle in Worlds of If Sept. 43/2
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Mari Wolf
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It was the space-born ones who were doing most of the talking. The children, the young people, the people no longer young but still born since the voyage started, still looking upon Earth more as a wonderful legend than as their own place of origin.
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1958 Enemy in Venture Science Fiction Jan. 114/2
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Damon Knight
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It was the only sky she knew; like her mother’s mother before her, she was space-born. Centuries ago, driven out of the fat green worlds, her people had grown austere, like the arid fields of stars they roamed along.
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1969 Uncharted Stars 47
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Andre Norton
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His age was noted as problematical, since he had been space-born.
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1971 Fallen Spaceman in Worlds of If June 170/1
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Lee Harding
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He was space-born and had never known the feel of a planet underneath his feet or the burden of an unvarying gravity.
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1992 Tomorrow’s Books in Amazing Stories Sept. 71/1
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Melpomene Murray and her space-born classmates have been trained from birth to lead mankind into the future, but Melpomene has plans of her own.
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2012 Earth Unaware 239
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Orson Scott Card
Aaron Johnston
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You’re a free miner. You’re space born. That’s two strikes against you on Luna. Don’t give up.
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2018 Record of a Spaceborn Few (2019) 334
Becky Chambers
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We, too, took the ways of our planet with us. And so, too, go the Exodans, a spaceborn people who balk at abandoning an environment inspired by a planet that, to most, may as well be myth.
Research requirements
antedating 1940
Earliest cite
Henry Kuttner, "A Million Years to Conquer", in Startling Stories
Research History
Fred Galvin submitted a cite from a 1952 reprint of Henry Kuttner's 1940 "A Million Years to Conquer"; Mike Christie verified it in the original publication.Fred Galvin submitted a 1951 cite from James H. Schmitz's "Space Fear".
Simon Koppel submitted a 2018 cite from Becky Chambers's "Record of a Spaceborn Few".
(We are aware of E.C. Tubb's 1956 novel "The Space Born", but we don't have enough other evidence for the noun to include it.)
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