out-system adv.
in or toward the outer parts of a solar system; away from a solar system’s star; outside of a solar system; cf. in-system adv.
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1951
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H. B. Fyfe
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Maybe I’ll just stop off on my way out-system.
Experimentum Crucis in Astounding Science Fiction Mar. 95/1 -
1967
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Keith Laumer
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We pushed on, hearing rumors, legends, hints that a vessel like the one I described had been seen once, long ago, or had visited the next world out-system, or that creatures like Srat had been found, dead, on an abandoned moon.
Spaceman! in Worlds of If June 126/1 -
1979
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L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
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Apollo two and Angel two were both drifting up and out-system as they orbited each other.
Iron Man, Plastic Ships in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine Oct. 121 -
1993
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Michael Kallenberger
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The father that Jim Parsevere had just been getting to know—after divorce had sent him a continent away, after a five-year tour of duty out-system, after still more years apart because of the old man’s stubbornness—that father would be dead for a hundred years or more by the time Jim awakened.
Faces in the Sky in Amazing Stories Jan. 54/1 -
2007
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L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
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Every one of them has been sent out-system in the last year. They haven’t returned.
Elysium Commission xxv. 177
Research requirements
antedating 1951
Earliest cite
H. B. Fyfe, writing as Andrew MacDuff
Research History
Fred Galvin submitted a 1951 cite from H. B. Fyfe's "Implode and Peddle".
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