Europan adj.
of or relating to the Jovian moon Europa or its inhabitants
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1931
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Edward E. Smith
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Callisto’s foremost citizens were on hand to welcome the Terrestrial rescuers, and revelry reigned supreme in that deeply buried Europan community.
Spacehounds of IPC in Amazing Stories Sept. xiii. 570/1 -
1943
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Henry Hasse
Albert dePina
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‘We’re the first to find life on Europa, the only ones to see what inhabits it; and all you can think of is your damned stomach. You can’t be starved, you ate this morning!’ ‘Yes, and that was the last of it,’ Jim snarled. His face was ugly now and purposeful. ‘Well, I’m hungry again, and now that I’ve found these Europan kangaroos I aim to be fed and kept warm. Notice how fine that pelt is?’
Star of Panadur in Planet Stories Mar. 66/2 -
1962
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Robert F. Young
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On Europa, the people are desperately unhappy, and when people are desperately unhappy they can find relief in only one way—by exploiting someone who is worse off than they are. Bringing a Europan girl a dead man is like bringing a New Earth girl a box of candy.
Star Fisherman in Fantastic Stories of Imagination June 37/2 -
1989
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Charles Sheffield
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The Phase B effort that the four combines were working on now was a proof-of-capability run for the full Europan Metamorphosis…. The next phases called for the delivery of fifty asteroids to impact points on Europa (Phase C), followed by thermal mixing operations on the moon’s surface (Phase D).
Out of Copyright in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May 97 -
2001
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Paul Di Filippo
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Finally the jagged, faintly luminescent underside of the miles of ice that enclosed the Europan biosphere loomed above her.
Doing the Unstuck in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May 14 -
2015
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Gregory Norman Bossert
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The T.A.G. capture process uses viral systems based on Europan organisms. I’ve got that in me. Just having a backup at all, does that really leave us human?
Twelve & Tag in Asimov’s Science Fiction Mar. 55
Research requirements
antedating 1931
Earliest cite
"Doc" Smith, in Amazing Stories
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