Earthan adj.

And there is the old Earthan suspicion, my friend. We of Dromu are of the solar system, and we have found out what we could about other forms of life in that system.

Well, she was tall, and dark, and I guess she’d be classed as attractive, in a powerful, intense sort of way. Had a ‘presence’ if you know what I mean. She reckoned to be Earthan, but I wouldn’t like to be sure about that. You can’t always tell.

Earth was as exciting as a basketful of baby grunch, of course. We first surveyed it all from about one-half tentacle of radius, then began to make closer approaches. We would observe Earthan tests of nuclear weapons—the bulletin board back at Center kept us pretty well posted on the when and where of things like that.

‘What’s the capital of Earth?’ ‘Earth?’ ‘Good lords! Earth, your origin planet. You’re Earthan, Chase—come on, you’ve gotta know that.’

Isabel opened her mouth, about to detail the issue—this one had to do with Earthen historical eras, which was always a thorny thing to delineate—but she took one look at Tamsin and changed her mind. [Ibid. 332] Imagine if the Earthen builders had known their descendants would choose to remain in space, that this transitory life satisfied them, even when empty ground lay within reach. What would the human species look like today were that the case?