spacegirl n.

a female space traveller, esp. one who is young; (also) a (young) female or feminine person or being from another planet; cf. spacewoman n.

  • 1933 P. Nowlan Buck Rogers (syndicated comic strip) (Locket of Madness (series I, strip 151)) 12 Feb. page image Philip Francis Nowlan

    A two-eyed being from space—just like the space girl we captured!

  • 1937 ‘E. Binder’ S O S in Space in Astounding Stories Jan. 72/1 page image Otto Binder Eando Binder bibliography

    P. S. You left out one little detail of my description—I’m bow-legged! Now this ‘charming’ space girl with the red mop—she’d be tall and gawky and bony, with a sour, chinless face, big, flabby feet, and a voice like a scratchy phonograph record. I know the type too well. Probably as lovable as a Uranian Cactus Rat.

  • 1940 Planet Stories Fall 33 (editorial blurb for Robert Moore Williams’s Quest on Io) page image

    Radium-seeking Andy Horn and his talking honey-bear believed they were alone on Jupiter’s bleak satellite. Then out of nowhere dropped the space-girl trailing a fateful comet of piracy and death.

  • 1953 R. J. McGregor Wise Guy in Science Stories Oct. 52/2 page image R. J. McGregor bibliography

    Hawk made with a normal reaction comment: ‘Who made this damned walk. And what in hell for?’ ‘Men didn’t make it.’ ‘You believe in spacegirls. They made it?’ ‘I wish they had,’ I said.

  • 1954 ‘G. St. Reynard’ Giants from Outer Space in Imagination May 19/2 page image Robert W. Krepps bibliography

    So they’d paired off already? So much for his quick dream of marrying a spacegirl...

  • 1960 E. C. Savage Letter in New Worlds Science Fiction July 125 page image

    The B.E.M.; the incredibly hardy spacegirl—nearly naked in galactic space while mere man progressed to her ‘rescue’ in space suits; the constant theme of space war; [etc.].

  • 1971 D. Norman To Vanishing Point vi. 45 page image Doreen Norman bibliography

    Aislinn looked at him, a puzzled line between her eyes. Hazel believed that the spacegirl truly did not understand why John took offence at certain words, or that John should be ill at ease when Hazel was praised. But still Aislinn said, ‘I place my trust in the three of you.’

  • 1990 S. Clark Star Trek TV Episodes 67/68/69/70 in TV Zone (#15) Feb. 28/2 page image Stuart Clark

    It [sc. S03E11 ‘Wink of an Eye’ (1968)] is one of the third season’s Kirk-gets-alien-space-girl episodes. In this case, the girl in question is Deela and she has chosen Kirk to help her repopulate her species.

  • 2011 B. Hatke (title) Ben Hatke

    Zita the Spacegirl.

  • 2019 N. Okorafor Baobab Tree in Shuri (#2) Jan. (unpaged) Nnedi Okorafor

    I—I’m actually going into space! I’m in space! Whoooooooo, Shuri the space girl!!! Finally! WOOOOOHOOOOO!


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antedating 1937

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