jump point n.
a location where interstellar jumps are possible
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1964
Christopher Anvil
It makes it kind of rough if, through no fault of your own, the gravitor gives out before its triple-clad warranty period is up, or a jump-point slides out of congruity and hangs the ship up in the middle of nowhere for a month.
Bill for Delivery in Analog Science Fact–Science Fiction Nov. 76/2
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1981
C. J. Cherryh
Beyond Meetpoint in the other direction was stsho space, with a great scarcity of jumppoints to help them along.
Pride of Chanur (1991) ii. 24
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1987 Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact Dec. 27/1
The unmanned pod bundle would continue on its slow, cheap way to its target, one of a long train stretching from Rodeo to the anomaly in space that was the Jump point.
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1995
Elizabeth Moon
Many communication modes for ansible transmission were located near jump points, for ease of maintenance and repair.
Winning Colours (1999) xv. 268
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1999
Amy Thomson
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In the three months it took to reach the jump point, the two Tendu learned to be comfortable with speaking aloud.
Through Alien Eyes (2000) i. 35
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2020
Elizabeth Bear
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We copied them, and by integrating them into the self-replicating tinkertoy machine’s code, we made one big enough to, er, distort space-time and slide Big Rock Candy Mountain close enough to a white space jump point that somebody could plausibly stumble across her.
Machine xxv. 407
Research requirements
antedating 1964
Earliest cite
Christopher Anvil, "Bill for Delivery"
Research History
Fred Galvin submitted a cite from a 1983 reprint of Christopher Anvil's "Bill for Delivery", which Mike Christie verified in the 1964 first publication.Ben Ostrowsky submitted a 2020 cite from Elizabeth Bear.
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