xenobiologist n.
a specialist in xenobiology n.
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1954
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Robert A. Heinlein
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Once the xenobiologists got their hands on Lummox they would never let him go.
Star Lummox in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May 60 -
1956
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Andre Norton
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Being an amateur xenobiologist of no small standing himself, the shapes of the carvings more than the material from which they fashioned [sic] held his attention.
Plague Ship iv. 46 -
1971
Ursula K. Le Guin
They're intelligent but Irchevsky, our best xenobiologist, thinks they may not be rational at all.
Lathe of Heaven (1973) x. 160
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1982
Events again force her to rely on alienated individuals: Hywel, her husband…and Tam, the shape-changing, alien, xenobiologist.
From Alienation to Personal Triumph in T. Staicar Feminine Eye (1982) ix. 117
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1991
Orson Scott Card
Only a few people understood how much was riding on the work that Ela and Novinha, as Lusitania’s xenobiologists were doing.
Xenocide v. 73
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1994
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Barrington J. Bayley
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The search was for life. Those drones which returned—about 30 per cent—came back with an increasingly dismal picture. The ubiquitous gas giants were targeted first. All were sterile, a puzzle to prospective xenobiologists.
Gnostic Endings in Interzone (#85) July 9/1
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1996
James E. Gunn
A group of xenobiologists believed it was close to opening communication.
Joy Machine iii. 37
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1996
Xenobiologists—a field that had come into existence in four years flat and now boasted four monthly journals—had managed to establish that the tissues of all the dead Tiberians had various kinds of damage brought on by the way their immune systems reacted to long-term exposure to Earth proteins, so they not only had to have been to the Earth, they had to have spent years here eating the food.
Encounter with Tiber 473
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1999
Michael Jan Friedman
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One was Mayhar-Perth, the xenobiologist.
My Brother’s Keeper . vi. 72
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2004
Peter F. Hamilton
What CST actually conducted was planetary surveys, the province of geologists and xenobiologists; they weren’t interested in the void between the stars, there was no striving to bridge the distance.
Pandora's Star v. 118
Research requirements
antedating 1954
Earliest cite
1954 R. Heinlein 'The Star Lummox'
Research History
Connie Bomster suggested several early quotes from Andre Norton; Jesse Sheidlower found one in her 1956 novel _Plague Ship_.
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