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.
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1933 Buck Rogers (syndicated comic strip) (Locket of Madness (series I, strip 151)) 12 Feb.
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Philip Francis Nowlan
A two-eyed being from space—just like the space girl we captured!
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1937 S O S in Space in Astounding Stories Jan. 72/1
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Otto Binder
Eando Binder
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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.
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1940 Planet Stories Fall 33 (editorial blurb for Robert Moore Williams’s Quest on Io)
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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.
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1953 Wise Guy in Science Stories Oct. 52/2
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R. J. McGregor
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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.
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1954 Giants from Outer Space in Imagination May 19/2
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Robert W. Krepps
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So they’d paired off already? So much for his quick dream of marrying a spacegirl...
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1960 Letter in New Worlds Science Fiction July 125
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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.].
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1971 To Vanishing Point vi. 45
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Doreen Norman
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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.’
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1990 Star Trek TV Episodes 67/68/69/70 in TV Zone (#15) Feb. 28/2
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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.
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2011 (title)
Ben Hatke
Zita the Spacegirl.
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2019 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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