outworlder n.
someone from an outworld n.; an alien; an outsider
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1934 A Matter of Size in Astounding Stories Apr. 41/1
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Harry Bates
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The out-worlder smiled. He sat on a chair and removed one sandal, exposing a foot such as no man on Earth had ever yet possessed. The big toe was very large, and was flanked by another only a little bit smaller. The three outer toes were vestigial. Here was the foot of the human race, thousands of years in the future.
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1948 Thing of Beauty in Planet Comics Nov. 19/2
It was not their anger, their rage, their unleashed passion to murder him as an outworlder invading their domain of lonely beauty that staggered him—it was the astounding unholy sight of them!
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1952 Star Plunderer in Planet Stories Sept. 56/2
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Poul Anderson
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I don’t fancy life as the slave of a barbarian outworlder…though humans with technical training are much in demand and usually fairly well treated.
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1954 Milk Run in Galaxy Sept. 120/2
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Robert Sheckley
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Their visitor was an outworlder, to judge by his stocky frame, small head and pale green skin.
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1957 Run for the Stars in Science Fiction Adventures June 69/1
Harlan Ellison
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The golden-skinned out[-]worlder hesitated a fraction of a second, and Tallant brought his knee up with a snap.
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1972 Tar-Aiym Krang 5
Alan Dean Foster
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That worthy, a husky blond middle-aged human, had just finished selling a pair of durfarq -skin coats to two outlandishly clad outworlders…for three times what they were worth.
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1972 Tar-Aiym Krang 31
Alan Dean Foster
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When the police discovered that the three corpses were outworlders, a search pattern would be put into effect with small delay. Murder was not conducive to increased tourism.
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1973 Come, Hunt an Earthman (1985) 56
Philip E. High
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The weakness of his case, I had realised at once, was his lack of evidence of an alleged outworlder.
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1982 Foundation's Edge 224
Isaac Asimov
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I forget my hospitality. You are Outworlders and it would not be fitting that you entertain me.
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1985 Dwellers in the Crucible ii. 30
Margaret Wander Bonanno
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Cleante knew that as a newcomer, an outworlder on probation as it were she risked a breach of Vulcan propriety.
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1990 Inconstant Star in L. Niven et al. Man-Kzin Wars III (1992) . 174
Poul Anderson
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Commercial and cultural as well as political center, it was bound to draw an undue share of outworlders and their influence.
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1997 Mind Meld i. 15
John Vornholt
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Normally, outworlders would not be privileged to hear this information, but Captain Kirk participated in your koon-ut-kal-if-fee, and the fal-tor-pan which restored you to us.
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2012 Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance xvi. 260
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Lois McMaster Bujold
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‘Imperial Regent for sixteen years, you know, when Emperor Gregor was a minor,’ Byerly charitably glossed for her outworlder benefit. ‘All of the work, none of the perks.’
Research requirements
antedating 1934
Earliest cite
H. Bates 'A Matter of Size'
Research History
Enoch Forrester submitted a cite from a reprint of Robert Sheckley's "Milk Run", which Mike Christie verified in the original 1954 magazine appearance; and also submitted a cite from a reprint of Frank Herbert's "Dune", which Mike Christie verified in the original 1965 magazine appearance; and from a reprint of Harlan Ellison's "Run for the Stars"; Mike Christie verified that cite in a 1959 printing, and Jesse Sheidlower later verified it in the 1957 first printing in Science Fiction Adventures.Enoch Forrester submitted a cite from a 1983 reprint of Alan Dean Foster's "The Tar-Aiym Krang"; Douglas Winston verified the cite in the 1972 first edition.
Katrina Campbell submitted a cite from a 1985 reprint of Philip E. High's "Come, Hunt an Earthman".
Enoch Forrester submitted a cite from a reprint of Isaac Asimov's "Foundation's Edge"; Mike Christie verified the cite in the 1982 first edition.
Malcolm Farmer submitted a cite from a reprint of Poul Anderson's "The Star Plunderer"; Mike Christie verified the cite in the 1952 original magazine appearance.
Katrina Campbell submitted a cite from a 1985 reprint of Edmond Hamilton's 1968 "The Closed Worlds".
Fred Galvin submitted a November 1948 cite from Thornecliffe Herrick's "A Thing of Beauty".
Fred Galvin submitted cites from a 1957 reprint of Harry Bates' "A Matter of Size"; Alistair Durie verified this in its 1934 first publication.
Bee Ostrowsky submitted a 2012 cite from Lois McMaster Bujold.
Added to the OED in December 2004 with an earliest date of 1948.
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