countergravity adj.
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1940
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John Russell Fearn
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Suppose the shells that dropped released a counter-gravity force upon impact: do you see what would happen?
Twilight of the Tenth World in Planet Stories Winter 107/1 -
1942
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Ray Cummings
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I'll turn a countergravity ray on you. You'll have a nice, long trip—until you starve to death!
Rain of Fire in Future Aug. 65/1 -
1952
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Isaac Asimov
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In those days, Valona would borrow a diamagnetic scooter and take him out of the village every idle day. They would skim along, a foot above the road, gliding on the cushioned smoothness of the counter-gravity field, until they were miles and miles away from any human habitation.
Currents of Space in Astounding Science Fiction Oct. 11/2 -
1965
The car was dropping, its forward momentum gone…If it hadn’t been for the countergravity materials worked into its structure, the Cloudsplitter would have plunged to the ground like a rock.
Goblin Night in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact Apr. 22/2 -
1967
Poul Anderson
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The engines driving that enormous mass were deathly quiet. But where their countergravity fields touched the planet, trees snapped to kindling and the lake roiled white.
Outpost of Empire in Galaxy Magazine Dec. 69/1 -
1999
David Weber
The Admiralty Building was over a Manticoran century-and-a-half old and little more than a hundred stories tall, a modest little structure for a counter-gravity civilization, but that fireplace’s chimney bored up through thirty-odd stories of air shafts and ventilation ducting.
On Basilisk Station 111
Research requirements
any evidence 1940
Earliest cite
in Planet Stories
Research History
Fred Galvin submitted a 1952 cite for "counter-gravity" from Asimov's "The Currents of Space"Ralf Brown supplied a pointer for "counter-gravity" from an etext of David Weber's "On Basilisk Station", and Malcolm Farmer located the cite in a 1999 reprint.
Ralf Brown supplied a pointer for "countergravity" from an etext of James H. Schmitz's "Goblin Night", and Mike Christie verified the cite in the 1965 first publication..
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