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"I've come across more and more people who've actually tried reading science fiction and can't make it make sense."
- Samuel R. Delany
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| Extee | ||
| An uncommon abbreviation for "extraterrestrial" |
| “But when I was able to walk, I got a gun and a box of Blasto. I was going to blow up what I thought was a kind of rock-fortress, an outpost for some kind of extee. I’d no idea of the true nature of these beasts. First, though, I decided to reconnoiter. I was going to' spy on the boulder from across the valley. And I was trapped by this thing." |
| Technovelgy from Mother,
by Philip Jose Farmer. Published by Thrilling Wonder Stories in 1953 Additional resources -
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There was a flurry of usage in the early 1950's; here's another example from Strange Compulsion published just a few months later, also by Farmer:
“It could be adrenalin shock,” said Mark Gaulers.
“Nothing extee?” said Harry Harazi. “Man, that’s good."
She handed him a slip of paper on which the machine had punched a code.
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