| 1931 E. E. Smith in Amazing Stories Sept. 544/2
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He first called Mars, the home planet of Alcantro and Fedanzo, the foremost force-field experts of three planets; and was assured in no uncertain terms that those rulers of rays were ready and anxious to follow wherever Brandon and Westfall might lead.
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| 1934 E. E. Smith Skylark of Valeron in Astounding Stories Sept. 27/1
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We know but little more than we knew countless thousands of cycles ago, when our home planet was still substance.
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| 1949 ‘T. Herrick’ Message From Dead in Planet Comics Jan. 24/2
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The Moon night is much colder that Earth's. But my sleeping tube was well-equipped with an electrical heating coil and I lay snug and warm on my back—staring at my home planet that had changed places with the Moon.
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| 1950 H. B. Piper Last Enemy in Astounding Sci. Fiction Aug. 11/2
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Like all the Second Level, its time-lines descend from the probability of one or more shiploads of colonists having come to Terra from Mars about seventy-five to a hundred thousand years ago, and then having been cut off from the home planet and forced to develop a civilization of their own here.
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| 1950 F. Leiber Enchanted Forest in Astounding Sci. Fiction Oct. 111/2
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Your home planet is dead, Elven. Of all the Wild Ones, only you slipped through our cordon.
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| 1951 J. H. Schmitz Space Fear in Astounding Sci. Fiction Mar. 48/2
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The ice of his home-planet was in Hallerock's eyes; but so was the warm, loyal human strength that had triumphed over it and carelessly paid in then the full, final price of conquest.
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| 1951 K. MacLean Pictures Don't Lie in Galaxy Sci. Fiction Aug. 104/1
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Do you know anything about their home planet?
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| 1951 I. Asimov Foundation Trilogy—Foundation i. ii. 6
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The air seemed a little thicker here, the gravity a bit greater, than on his home planet of Synnax.
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| 1951 F. B. Long Cones in Possible Worlds Sci. Fiction (1951) 96
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Across a thin strip on the surface of the Sun's nearest neighbor there occurred at forty four-day intervals the familiar alternations of sunlight and darkness which Gibbs Crayley and the other members of the First Mercury Exploring Expedition knew and loved on their home planet.
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| 1952 R. A. Heinlein This I Believe in R. A. Heinlein & V. Heinlein Grumbles from Grave (1990) 141
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I believe in my whole race‥. I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching, oversize brain case‥will endure. Willendure longer than his home planet—will spread out to the stars and beyond.
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| 1952 R. A. Heinlein This I Believe in R. A. Heinlein & V. Heinlein Grumbles from Grave (1990) 141
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I believe in my whole race‥. I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching, oversize brain case‥will endure. Willendure longer than his home planet—will spread out to the stars and beyond.
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| 1953 F. B. Long Little Men of Space in Fantastic Universe June–July 71/2
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The Earth-child is right!‥That rocket can and must carry us to our home planet.
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| 1955 J. Vance Meet Miss Universe in Fantastic Universe Mar. 21/2
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On her home planet Miss Universe quite possibly reveled in the rich bouquet of decaying vegetable matter in lieu of champagne.
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| 1956 S. Carson Seed of Tomorrow in Fantastic Universe Apr. 82/1
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He did not think that he would ever see his home planet again and he realized suddenly how desperately he needed the friendly reassurances and advice of Ti-5.
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| 1967 P. Anderson Starfog in Analog Sci. Fiction/Sci. Fact Aug. 16/1
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That's why we've kept them here so long, on one excuse after the next, here on our home planet. We feel responsible to the rest of mankind!
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| 1968 S. E. Whitfield in S. E. Whitfield & G. Roddenberry Making of ‘Star Trek’ ii. iii. 210
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These sounds‥include‥other sounds native to the crewman's home planet.
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| 1970 A. McCaffrey Ship who Sang (1991) ii.28
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‘Your home planet is Medea?’ inquired Helva with reluctant courtesy.
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| 1971 W. F. Nolan Biographical Introd. in W. F. Nolan Edge of Forever (1971) 25
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In the novel Chad's hero runs into humanoid aliens during his fishing jaunt in Colorado, and agrees to help them find a way back to their home planet.
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| 1976 P. Anthony What of Earth (1989) 68
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The sheer immensity of space, of actually leaving, not my home, but my home planet.
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| 1982 M. Bradley Winds of Darkover 10
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Resigning before a contract was up meant losing your holdback pay and your fee passage back to your home planet—which could strand you on a strange world and wipe out a year's pay.
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| 1982 M. Brizzi C. J. Cherryh &omo Tomorrow's New Sex Roles in T. Staicar Feminine Eye (1982) iv. 35
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When humans come to their home planet, the majat are distressed because the death of a single human is the cessation of an individual consciousness, a situation impossible with their group mind.
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| 1985 S. Sucharitkul Alien Swordmaster i. i. 4
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None of this home-planet talk‥.We're to speak Earth tongues or shut up.
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| 1989 D. Dvorkin & D. Dvorkin Star Trek: Next Generation: Captains' Honor vii. 129
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How did you settle that on your home planet?
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| 1993 K. S. Robinson Red Mars v. 299
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Meanwhile we've got more pressing problems‥.Or a home planet going critical.
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| 1993 Sci. Fiction Age Jan. 40/2
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Swifting stayed to ask the travelers about their home planets and answer any questions about WideSky.
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| 2001 Sci Fi June 54/1
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There's a huge cause to be fought, there's a home planet to be saved.
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