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![]() This is the first use of this full term, which eventually gets you to the phrase "warp drive", so familiar to Star Trek fans.
See the article on space warp from Jack Williamson's 1936 novel The Cometeers, the earliest use of the term.
The first use of the idea of a faster-than-light drive is probably that of the inertialess drive from 'Doc Smith's 1934 novel Triplanetary. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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