planet dweller n.

I deduce, from your compact structure, your enormous atmospheric pressure, and your, to us, unbelievably high body temperature, that you must be planet-dwellers.

Of the four mariners in the place, only the monstrous quartermaster, who was known to spaceman and planet dweller alike as ‘Mark the Massive’, seemed to take any note of my entrance.

Example Twenty-Seven is the most developed case on record of what we have referred to in the previous examples as the inherent distaste of the planet-dweller for the cosmic spaces. We are all familiar with the fact that those who make their initial trips beyond the confines of their birth-world are assailed with a certain numbness that seems to make them highly suspect to nervous strains and great tension.

You never saw the Sun until you got this close, Newton thought. Ordinary planet-dwellers thought of it as a beneficent golden thing in the sky, giving them heat and light and life. But here you saw the Sun as it really was, a throbbing seething core of cosmic force, utterly indifferent to the bits of ash that were its planets and to the motes that lived upon those ashes.

A ship is a spaceman’s home—more of a home, perhaps, than the house of any planet dweller.

The stars are gone, and the land around me makes no sense. Now I know why they call planet-dwellers ‘flatlanders’. I feel like a gnat on a table.

Any planet-dwellers worth saving would have got off their backsides and got themselves a decent job out in space somewhere.

Jarek would never get used to hollow-earth worlds. It came of being a planet-dweller for his first two decades; he’d managed to adjust to ships and stations where the horizon was cut off, but having the horizon wrapped around your head was just plain wrong.