Full record for stasis field n.
| Definition | a device which halts all change or activity in a given volume; also, the volume under such stasis |
| OED requirements | antedating 1942 |
| Earliest cite | R. Heinlein 'Beyond This Horizon' |
| Comment | Gavin Long submitted a cite from the book version of Larry Niven's "World of Ptavvs", which Mike Christie verified in the original 1965 magazine version.
Lawrence Watt-Evans suggested Robert Sheckley's "A Ticket to Tranai", and Mike Christie located a cite in the original 1955 magazine appearance. Edward Bornstein submitted a cite from a 1996 reprint of David Weber's 1996 "The Armageddon Inheritance"; and a 1996 cite from David Weber's "Heirs of Empire". Enoch Forrester submitted a 1980 cite from R. Camino in Dragon magazine. Enoch Forrester submitted a cite from a 1992 reprint of Grant Naylor's "Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers". Edward Bornstein submitted a cite from a reprint of Robert Heinlein's "Beyond This Horizon"; Mike Christie verified the cite in the 1942 first magazine appearance. Edward Bornstein submitted a cite from a 1989 reprint of David Brin's 1980 "Sundiver". Edward Bornstein submitted a 2002 cite from John Ringo's "When The Devil Dances". Edward Bornstein submitted a 1990 cite from Stephan E. Jones' "GURPS Uplift". Malcolm Farmer submitted a cite from a reprint of George R.R. Martin's "Plague Star"; Mike Christie verified it in the 1985 first magazine appearance. |
| Last modified | 6 July, 2008 |
Citations for stasis field n.
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| 1974 J. Haldeman Forever War (1976) 177, | I couldn't begin to understand the principles behind the stasis field; the gap between present-day physics and my master's degree in the same subject was as long as the time that separated Galileo and Einstein. |
| 1980 D. Brin Sundiver (1989) 117 | Only a computer can adjust the stasis fields fast enough to keep the turbulence from pounding a passenger to jelly. |
| 1980 R. Camino in Dragon Mag. Nov. 45/1 | Should the electromagnetic field be in danger of imminent termination, or if someone starts disassembling the device, it and everything within two meters of it will be engulfed by a stasis field. No time will pass for anything within the stasis field. In effect, that volume of space has been cut off from the rest of the universe. |
| 1980 D. Brin Sundiver (1989) 117 | The ship is a flat deck inside an almost perfectly reflecting shell. The Gravity Engines, Stasis Field Generators and the Refrigerator Laser are all in the smaller sphere that sits in the middle of the deck. |
| 1989 D. Dvorkin & D. Dvorkin Star Trek: Next Generation: Captains' Honor xiii. 222 | ‘Your right forearm’—he looked down, and saw it was held in place by a stasis field—‘was broken.’ |
| 1990 J. Pournelle & S. M. Stirling Asteroid Queen in L. Niven et al. Man-Kzin Wars III (1992) ii. 63 | They had a device, a stasis field that forms invulnerable protection and freezes time within; we have never been able to understand the principle and copies do not work, but we have found them occasionally, and they can be deactivated. |
| 1994 Sci. Fiction Age July 49/1 | The screamship threw a stasis field on me. |
| 1994 L. A. Graf Firestorm x. 86 | Then the stasis field faded. |
| 1999 M.J. Friedman My Brother's Keeper ii. iv. 80 | When everyone is accounted for, we'll place a stasis field around them. |