Full record for earth folk n.

Definition	= earthpeople
OED requirements	antedating 1936
Earliest cite	Frank Belknap Long, 'Cones'
Comment	Fred Galvin submitted a 1950 cite from Eric Frank Russell's "Dear Devil". Fred Galvin submitted a 1956 cite from Robert Silverberg's "The Lonely Ones". Fred Galvin submitted a 1941 cite from Manly Wade Wellman's "The Devil's Asteroid". Mike Christie submitted a 1936 cite from Frank Belknap Long's "Cones". Fred Galvin submitted a cite from a 1976 reprint of Leigh Brackett's 1949 "The Lake of the Gone Forever". Fred Galvin submitted a cite from the Project Gutenberg etext of Charles Willard Diffin's "Brood of The Dark Moon": we would like to confirm this in the first publication, serialized in Astounding Stories, August-November, 1931. (Chapter XXI, probably in part 4 in the November issue)
Last modified	8 June, 2010

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1976 L. Brackett Lake of Gone Forever in Space Odysseys 46

Ciel rose obediently but her eyes watched him slyly as she followed the Earthfolk out and down the hall.