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"In 1970 I found little difficulty staying 30 years ahead of the man in the street, and now I find it difficult to stay 18 months ahead of the man on the street."
- Vernor Vinge
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| Space-Sailor | ||
| A spaceman; someone who makes his living by voyaging in space. |
| "I'll be up in a minute, Rod, but don’t ask Connor. He looks a little space-sick." "Space-sick your eye!” a wrathful voice answered. "If you were just half the space-sailor I am, you’d- ” "Cut it and come up here!” March ordered impatiently. "Can’t you two let up on this scrapping for a few minutes?" There was silence for a few moments, and then the two climbed up into the broad-windowed little pilot room in which March sat at the controls of the cruiser as it raced through the void. |
| Technovelgy from The Star-Roamers,
by Edmond Hamilton. Published by Weird Tales in 1933 Additional resources -
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Hamilton uses it again in The World With A Thousand Moons:
Kenniston woke up to the fact that he had made a bad slip. He hastily covered up. "You have to be a good bit of a space-sailor to be a meteor-miner, Miss Loring. You have to cover a lot of territory."
Eric Frank Russell, writing as Maurice Hugi, used it in his 1934 story The Mines of Haldane:
Jansen and the doctor turned to the space sailor, who was standing against the rock wall.
Compare to astronaut from The Death's Head Meteor (1930) by Neil R. Jones,
space pirate from Evans of the Earth-Guard (1930) by Edmond Hamilton,
astrogator from The Conquest of Space (1931) by David Lasser, space men from Revolt of the Star Men (1932) by Raymond Z. Gallun,
spacedog from A Question of Salvage (1939) by Malcolm Jameson,
space marines from Misfit (1939) by Robert Heinlein and space cadet from Sunward Flight (1943) by Leo Zagat.
"I didn't know you'd been a space-sailor all that time," the heiress said wonderingly. "I thought you said you were a meteor-miner."
“It’s Weatherby, sir. He’s ill," one of the crew called out.
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