otherspace n.
any of various types of space, as hyperspace or subspace, subject to different physical laws than our own; cf. realspace n.
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[1935
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John W. Campbell, Jr.
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We are in another space. I know why were are in this particular other space, too. This space is in a sort of strained condition already.]
Mightiest Machine in Astounding Stories Jan. 131/2 -
1937
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Arthur Leo Zagat
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‘There it is, straight ahead. Look.’ And so it was, shimmering discreetly, a vague intangible veil across the black curtain of this other-space.
Cavern of the Shining Pool in Thrilling Wonder Stories Oct. 78/2 -
1938
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Harry Walton
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[I]f we’re near the limits of our space, what space is beyond? [...] It can best be designated as other-space. No comparison is possible on a physical basis, since matter, the measuring rod of the space which it bends around itself, is always peculiar to that space and not transferable to an alien continuum. Were you to enter our space, you and your ship would be annihilated.
Below—Absolute! in Astounding Science-Fiction June 26/2 -
1949
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Murray Leinster
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Restlessly he set the tractor-beams—those not in use for anchorage—to fan out in all directions through this other-space. Practically nothing was known as yet about the dark universe. Light traveled faster there and inertia was less. Incredible speeds were possible. So much was known, and nothing else. The other-space could be a mere incalculable emptiness, without the most minute particle of substance anywhere in it. [Ibid. viii. 41/2] The force-field generators were intended only to drop the Stellaris into other-space but I designed them so they could be changed. And I just changed them. I had them spread out to make a spherical field a half-mile across—well beyond our hull. So when they went on, they dropped the pyramid-ship and everything else within a quarter-mile into other-space with us.
Black Galaxy in Startling Stories Mar. vii. 36/2 -
1953
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Henry Kuttner
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It must be simply an absolutely adaptable form of matter, capable of instant adaptation to whatever type of matter exists in whatever otherspace Khom’ad drifts through.
Well of the Worlds 90 -
1958
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Don Berry
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Nobody really knows what goes on in Otherspace, if anything. We just know we can plug a ship into it for a microsecond and come out fourteen hundred light years away from where we started.
Intruder in Venture Science Fiction Mar. 75/2 -
1964
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Kenneth Bulmer
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Everything went on in this otherspace at a steady, sedate speed relative to other objects—that they were hurdling the parsecs in moments in true space meant nothing.
The Contraption in Science Fantasy June–July 37 -
1991
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George Zebrowski
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Juan tensed, expecting the shift into otherspace.
Stranger Suns in Amazing Stories Mar. 119 -
1999
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Michael Armstrong
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Why would they spend those kind of resources on an Otherspace message? They’re cheap bastards.
Recalled to Home in Asimov’s Science Fiction Apr. 62 -
2002
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Diane Duane
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Kit grinned, picked up the manual, stuck it into the ‘pocket’ of otherspace that he kept things in for his wizardly work, and went after him.
Wizard Alone 63 -
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Hyperspace is an alternate dimension (similar to subspace and otherspace) accessible only through hyperdrive technology.
Star Wars: The Essential Atlas 121/2
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