light n. 2
a light year
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1961
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John T. Phillifent
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Itโs in the Omega Centaurus cluster. Thatโs twenty thousand lights away!
Stainless-Steel Knight in Worlds of If July 41/1 -
1966
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Keith Laumer
Rosel George Brown
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And four lights away, the Niss blockade of Terra still stands!
Earthblood in Worlds of If June 138/2 -
1972
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J. W. Schutz
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I shanโt be a moment. Terra is scarcely a thousand lights from here.
The Wish in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Sept. 101/1 -
1990
James Tiptree, Jr.
I'd been on a very strenuous year-long tour as Sensitive on an Extended Contact party six lights away.
Color of Neanderthal Eyes 2 -
1992
Vernor Vinge
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Sjandra Kei is thirty-nine hundred lights spinward from here.
Fire Upon Deep (1993) 297 -
2002
M. John Harrison
We have several missions available forty lights down the Beach.
Light (2004) 12
Research requirements
antedating 1961
Earliest cite
John T. Phillifent, writing as John Rackham, in Worlds of If
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