| 1970 J. Blish Spock must Die! vii. 52
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The fireball swelled intolerably as the matter and anti-matter in the doomed Klingon's warp-drive.
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| 1971 J. Blish Star Trek 4 45
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The whole lot touchier than a raw anti-matter pile over the Coridian question.
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| 1971 J. Blish Star Trek 4 24
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Starship, phaser banks, energy from anti-matter, the whole bit.
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| 1973 A. C. Clarke Rendezvous With Rama (1974) 20
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Nothing whatsoever had happened when the expanding cloud of vapour arrived on target—and a matter anti-matter reaction involving even a few milligrams would have produced an awesome firework display.
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| 1974 J. Blish Star Trek 10 20
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Or, more specifically, one of them matter—and the other one, antimatter!
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| 1979 O. Davies First Starship in O. Davis Omni Bk. of Space 104
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Even now, antimatter is being made.
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| 1982 S. Cooper Black Fire i.48
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The vehicle had warp potential, a matter/antimatter drive, and a life-support system as sophisticated as any he had ever seen.
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| 1983 S. Marshak & M. Culbreath Triangle xiii. 73
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We are playing with anti-matter.
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| 1986 D. Carey Battlestations! iv.57
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You can tell me I'm sucking antimatter.
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| 1987 D. Brin Uplift War 291
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At the edge of the forest Athaclena saw their special weapons team begin setting up their only antimatter projectors.
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| 1989 J.M. Dillard Lost Years vi. 125
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This stuff burned like raw antimatter going down.
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| 1989 J.M. Dillard Lost Years xiv. 275
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It would probably take an antimatter reaction just to knock the Vulcan unconscious.
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| 1990 F. Pohl World at End of Time (1993) 13
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If he got desperate enough he could even dial up the teaching machines and please his parents with a few hours' study of algebra or antimatter engine maintenance or the history of the Holy Roman Empire.
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| 1990 G. Bear Queen of Angels (1991) i.iv. 20
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When the antimatter drive ceased some four years after launch, AXIS entered a cold, quiet mode, its functions reduced to the simplest routine of maintenance, sensing and launch of transponders.
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| 1993 Sci. Fiction Age Jan. 40/1
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In its holotank a slowly changing blue and red analog-array showed the ship's position in relation to the gravity wells of the matter and antimatter suns of spaceplus and spaceminus impinging into nullspace.
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| 1993 D. Carey Great Starship Race ix. 140
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The result is highly ionized particles, hard radiation, dust, debris, and an above normal content of residual antimatter.
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| 1994 Analog Science Fiction & Fact Jan. 154/1
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The loss was going into positive He-4—antimatter—which was not detachable.
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| 1995 SFRA Rev. May–June 43
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Early 19th-century British explorers discover a meteorite of anti-ice—frozen anti-matter that reacts only when thawed.
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| 1996 W. Shatner Return viii. 58
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The hull of the Starship Enterprise had been built to withstand asteroidal impact, Iopene antimatter streams.
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| 1996 W. Shatner Return v. 31
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Picard recognized the glimmer of an antimatter reaction.
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| 1996 J. Gunn Joy Machine xiv. 209
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It wouldn't be difficult to jury-rig a device—say an antimatter payload contained within a neutronium shell.
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| 1997 W. Shatner Avenger ii. 15
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They are antimatter mines.
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| 1998 C. Pellegrino Afterword in C. Pellegrino & G. Zebrowski Star Trek: Next Generation: Dyson Sphere (1999) 209
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The Dooglasse ship‥is in fact an antimatter propelled Valkyrie (most relativistic rockets, just like most supersonic transport jets, are bound to look alike).
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| 1998 W. Shatner Spectre vii. 70
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The lunar pioneers had found the ice and mined it‥to manufacture the antimatter used to fuel the new warp ships.
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| 1998 L. A. Graf & M. J. Friedman War Dragons xvii. 268
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Randomly selected casualties‥willingly sacrificed their lives in antimatter chambers.
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