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"I've been very obsessive about writing science fiction for far too many years. Anyone with an ounce of sense would have given up years ago."
- Charles Stross
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| Off-World | ||
| Not of Earth. |
This is the first use of this great phrase.
| The emperor was silent, looking at her from under his brows. After a slightly uncomfortable pause, the girl turned away.
‘I'm leaving,’ she said briefly. ‘Where?’ ‘Off-world.’ |
| Technovelgy from Judgement Night,
by C.L. Moore. Published by Astounding Science Fiction in 1943 Additional resources -
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This phrase is also used in Raid on Valkyr (1950) by Alfred Koppel:
“Where do you go now, Valkyr?”
Kieran felt a stab of suspicion. How much did Landor know? Had his spies pierced Freka the Unknown’s counter-espionage cordon and brought word of the star-kings gathering on Kalgan?
Ridley Scott also uses this phrase in Blade Runner, although I don't think Philip K. Dick uses it in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep:
(Like great silver fish leaping up into the bowl of night, the ships of the Valkyr fleet rose from Kalgan...)
“Off-world.”
“Of course,” Landor smiled thinly, his eyebrows arching over pale, shrewd eyes. “Off-world.”
"A new life awaits you in the Off-world colonies. The chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure..."
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