aspace adv.
in space
Now Rare.
[a- ‘on; in, at’ + space, after asea]
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1933 in Amazing Stories Feb. 1005 (title)
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Joe W. Skidmore
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Souls Aspace.
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1935 Star Ship Invincible in Astounding Stories Jan. 37/2
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Frank K. Kelly
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The sky looked calm, and it was black the way it always had been since Hansen had been aspace, but it was the kind of black a man can look at and understand; there were stars in it.
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1942 Einstein’s Planetoid in Science Fiction Quarterly Spring 101/2
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C. M. Kornbluth
Frederik Pohl
Robert A. W. Lowndes
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We can still be the fastest thing aspace and not be capable of a voyage to Alpha Centauri and back within the span of a lifetime.
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1950 Paradise Street in Astounding Science Fiction Sept. 95/2
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C. L. Moore
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Before Ancibel could pull itself together after this shattering blow, the crew from Venus would be loaded and aspace with their loot.
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1958 Nothing for My Noon Meal in Nebula Science Fiction (#30) May 43
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Harlan Ellison
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It would be good aspace once more.
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1963 Reefs of Space in Worlds of If Nov. 82/2
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Jack Williamson
Frederik Pohl
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Don’t forget we’ve been aspace for over four months!
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1975 Curious Case of Henry Dickens in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Aug. 131/1
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Robert F. Young
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This sentimental journal back to my childhood was sparked…by the star loneliness a young girl sometimes experiences while aspace, even when she is safe aboard a vessel surrounded by members of her own kind.
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a1995 The Stars Move Still in J. Grant & D. Hutchinson Strange Pleasures 2 (2003) 179
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John Brunner
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They were dumped on any willing planet…and tolerated for the sake of the monstrously exaggerated yarns they could spin about their adventures while aspace.
Research requirements
antedating 1933
Earliest cite
Joe Skidmore, in Amazing Stories
Research History
Suggested, and most cites submitted, by Fred Galvin.
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