Full record for home planet n.
| Definition | = homeworld |
| OED requirements | antedating 1930 |
| Earliest cite | John W. Campbell, Jr., 'The Black Star Passes' |
| Comment | Fred Galvin submitted a 1949 cite from an unsigned editorial blurb in Thrilling Wonder Stories. Fred Galvin submitted a 1951 cite from James H. Schmitz's "Space Fear". Fred Galvin submitted a cite from a 1951 reprint of Frank Belknap Long's "Cones". Fred Galvin submitted a 1930 cite from John W. Campbell, Jr.'s "The Black Star Passes". Fred Galvin submitted a 1934 cite from E. E. Smith's "The Skylark of Valeron". Fred Galvin submitted a 1939 cite from Neil R. Jones's "Swordsmen of Saturn". Fred Galvin submitted a 1949 cite from Thornecliffe Herrick's "Message From the Dead". Fred Galvin submitted a 1953 cite from Frank Belknap Long's "Little Men of Space". Fred Galvin submitted a 1955 cite from Jack Vance's "Meet Miss Universe". Fred Galvin submitted a 1950 cite from H. Beam Piper's "Last Enemy". Fred Galvin submitted a 1950 cite from Fritz Leiber's "The Enchanted Forest". Fred Galvin submitted a 1946 cite from Gardner F. Fox's "Sword of the Seven Suns". Fred Galvin submitted a 1951 cite from H. B. Fyfe's "Thinking Machine". Fred Galvin submitted a 1956 cite from Sam Carson's "Seed of Tomorrow". Fred Galvin submitted a 1956 cite from Marion Zimmer Bradley's "Death Between the Stars". Fred Galvin submitted a 1951 cite from Katherine MacLean's "Pictures Don't Lie". |
| Last modified | 16 July, 2009 |
Citations for home planet n.
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| 1931 Amazing Stories Sept. 544/2 | 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. |
| 1949 ‘T. Herrick’ Message From Dead in Planet Comics Jan. 24/2 | 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. |
| 1950 Astounding Sci. Fiction Oct. 111/2 | Your home planet is dead, Elven. Of all the Wild Ones, only you slipped through our cordon. |
| 1950 Astounding Sci. Fiction Aug. 11/2 | 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. |
| 1951 Astounding Sci. Fiction Mar. 48/2 | 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. |
| 1951 K. MacLean Pictures Don't Lie in Galaxy Sci. Fiction Aug. 104/1 | Do you know anything about their home planet? |
| 1951 I. Asimov Foundation Trilogy—Foundation i. ii. 6 | The air seemed a little thicker here, the gravity a bit greater, than on his home planet of Synnax. |
| 1952 R. A. Heinlein This I Believe in R. A. Heinlein & V. Heinlein Grumbles from Grave (1990) 141 | 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. |
| 1952 R. A. Heinlein This I Believe in R. A. Heinlein & V. Heinlein Grumbles from Grave (1990) 141 | 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. |
| 1953 F. B. Long Little Men of Space in Fantastic Universe June–July 71/2 | The Earth-child is right!‥That rocket can and must carry us to our home planet. |
| 1955 J. Vance Meet Miss Universe in Fantastic Universe Mar. 21/2 | On her home planet Miss Universe quite possibly reveled in the rich bouquet of decaying vegetable matter in lieu of champagne. |
| 1956 S. Carson Seed of Tomorrow in Fantastic Universe Apr. 82/1 | 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. |
| 1968 S. E. Whitfield in S. E. Whitfield & G. Roddenberry Making of ‘Star Trek’ ii. iii. 210 | These sounds‥include‥other sounds native to the crewman's home planet. |
| 1970 A. McCaffrey Ship who Sang (1991) ii.28 | ‘Your home planet is Medea?’ inquired Helva with reluctant courtesy. |
| 1971 W. F. Nolan Edge of Forever 25 | 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. |
| 1976 P. Anthony What of Earth (1989) 68 | The sheer immensity of space, of actually leaving, not my home, but my home planet. |
| 1982 M. Brizzi C. J. Cherryh &omo Tomorrow's New Sex Roles in T. Staicar Feminine Eye (1982) iv. 35 | 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. |
| 1982 M. Bradley Winds of Darkover 10 | 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. |
| 1985 S. Sucharitkul Alien Swordmaster i. i. 4 | None of this home-planet talk‥.We're to speak Earth tongues or shut up. |
| 1989 D. Dvorkin & D. Dvorkin Star Trek: Next Generation: Captains' Honor vii. 129 | How did you settle that on your home planet? |
| 1993 Sci. Fiction Age Jan. 40/2 | Swifting stayed to ask the travelers about their home planets and answer any questions about WideSky. |
| 1993 K. S. Robinson Red Mars v. 299 | Meanwhile we've got more pressing problems‥.Or a home planet going critical. |
| 2001 Sci Fi June 54/1 | There's a huge cause to be fought, there's a home planet to be saved. |