nightside adj.
of or relating to the nightside n.
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1935
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Stanley G. Weinbaum
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It was not known then that while the night-side life of Venus can eat and digest that of the day side, the reverse is not true. No day-side creature can absorb the dark life because of the presence of various metabolic alcohols, all poisonous.
Parasite Planet in Astounding Stories Feb. 69 (footnote) -
1935
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Stanley G. Weinbaum
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Triops noctivivans actually is a night-side creature, and those in the mountains are outposts or fragments that've wandered into the sunless chasms.
Lotus Eaters in Astounding Stories Apr. 58/2 -
1958
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Robert Silverberg
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We were spiralling down to the surface of the planet for a nightside landing.
Fueling Stop in Future Science Fiction Oct. 30/2 -
2004
Peter F. Hamilton
They were a thousand kilometres above Anshun’s nightside equator, and curving round above the second-largest ocean.
Pandora's Star xxiv. 801 -
2005
Robert J. Sawyer
I watched as the nightside part of Earth—lenticular in this perspective, like a cat’s black pupil abutting the blue crescent of the dayside—kissed the gray lunar horizon.
Mindscan xiii. 89
Research requirements
any evidence 1935
Earliest cite
Stanley G. Weinbaum, The Lotus Eaters
Research History
Fred Galvin submitted a cite from a 1959 reprint of Stanley G. Weinbaum's "The Lotus Eaters", which Mike Christie verified in we the original publication (Astounding Stories, April 1935)
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