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"I never saw why I had to give up science in order to write, or the other way around, so I didn't!"
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![]() This is a very early use of this phrase.
For example, here is how the phrase was used by Doc Smith in his 1934 novel Triplanetary. In the novel, "space armor" is often used interchangably with "suit of space" (space suit); it is also written with a hyphen as "space-armor." Smith does distinguish an "emergency suit" from space armor.
As seen below, space armor does have its limits.
I think that McDermott and Miller deserve a tie for first use of this term, because they use it in The Duel on the Asteroid, which appeared in Wonder Stories, January, 1932:
Compare to vacuum armor from Skylark Three (1930) by Doc Smith,
Osprey space armor from Salvage in Space (1933) by Jack Williamson,
Dirigible Space Armor (Working Space Suits) from Collision Orbit (1941) by Jack Williamson, and
space armor from Cities in Flight (1957) by James Blish.
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