unhuman n.
an intelligent nonhuman entity; alien n.; cf. non-human n.
Aliens
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1944
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Leigh Brackett
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One of the slim unhumans turned and looked with its depthless black eyes at the soaring metal giant.
Jewel of Bas in Planet Stories Spring 19/1 -
1953
Andre Norton
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Even Smitt and Dalgre, for all their inborn suspicion not only of unhumans but also of sensitives, had fallen under the spell of the urbane charm.
Star Rangers xv. 192 -
1960
Poul Anderson
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We were both cushioned against the frightful vision of our poor folk being harried by unhumans, destroyed or enslaved, because neither of us really believed it.
High Crusade in Astounding/Analog Science Fact & Fiction July 20/2 -
1965
Edmond Hamilton
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โIโm sorry,โ said Gordon, and meant it. He hadnโt quite got used to unhumans yet but he and Korkhann had been through a nasty time together.
Shores of Infinity in Amazing Stories Apr. 9/2 -
2002
Michael Moorcock
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That vital, sturdy, undiluted stuff will bring us back our power and make Mars know her old fear of the unhumans who ruled her before the Sea Kings ruled.
Lost Sorceress of Silent Citadel in D. G. Hartwell Yearโs Best SF 8 (2003) 479
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antedating 1944
Earliest cite
Leigh Brackett, in Planet Stories
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