Full record for rimworld n.

Definition	a planet orbiting a star at the edge, or rim, of the galaxy
OED requirements	antedating 1957
Earliest cite	Robert A. Heinlein, "Citizen of the Galaxy"
Comment	Treesong submitted a 1959 cite from Bertram Chandler. Douglas Winston submitted a 1977 cite from Colin Kapp's "The Chaos Weapon". Douglas Winston submitted a 1965 cite for the form "Rim world" from John Brunner's "The Altar on Asconel". Douglas Winston submitted a cite from a 1984 reprint of Jane Yolen's 1982 "Dragon's Blood". Dan Tilque suggested "Rimworld Legacy" by F.A Javor, and Douglas Winston submitted cites from the 1967 first printing. Irene Grumman submitted a 1962 cite from Michael Moorcock's "The Sundered Worlds". Fred Galvin submitted a cite for "Rim world" from a reprint of Robert A. Heinlein's "Citizen of the Galaxy": Mike Christie verified this in its original publication in Astounding Science Fiction, November 1957.
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Citations for rimworld n.

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1959 Astounding Sci. Fiction Jan. 9/2	How much of this is sheer masochism, this flight from the warm, happy worlds of the Center to these Rim planets?
1959 Astounding Sci. Fiction Jan. 12/1	They don't like Deep Space, these Rim Worlders. They're scared of it. I suppose that it's because for all their lives they've been hanging over the edge of the ultimate pit by their eyebrows.
1962 M. Moorcock Sundered Worlds Nov.–Dec. 7	Two years previously Renark had suddenly resigned from his position as Warden of the Rim Worlds.
1977 C. Kapp Chaos Weapon iii. 30	That argument sounds convincing to us, but I doubt if it would cut much ice on a Rim world before the alien threat became a reality.