Definition | as normally found on earth, such as gravity or atmosphere |
OED requirements | antedating 1932 |
Earliest cite | John W. Campbell, Jr., 'The Electronic Siege' |
Comment | Jeff Prucher submitted a cite from a 2002 reprint of Theodore Sturgeon's 1956 "The Skills of Xanadu". Fred Galvin submitted a cite from a 1953 reprint of Hugh Frazier Parker's 1943 "The Sword of Johnny Damokles". Fred Galvin submitted a cite from a 1996 reprint of Raymond Z. Gallun's 1935 "Derelict". Fred Galvin submitted a cite from a 1949 reprint of Isaac Asimov's 1942 "Victory Unintentional". Fred Galvin submitted a 1932 cite from John W. Campbell, Jr.'s "The Electronic Siege". Fred Galvin submitted a 1953 cite from Idris Seabright's "The Altruists". Fred Galvin submitted a 1952 cite from James Blish's "Bridge". Fred Galvin submitted a 1956 cite from Milton Lesser's "Meet Miss Solar System" . Fred Galvin submitted a cite from a 1957 reprint of Robert A. Heinlein's 1956 "Double Star". Fred Galvin submitted a cite from a 1973 reprint of Lin Carter's 1972 "Black Legion of Callisto". |
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1932 J. W. Campbell Electronic Siege in Wonder Stories Apr. 1249/1 | Like the Patrol cruisers, the lifeless, defenseless ship careened on through space, her acceleration dropping immediately to Earth normal as automatic machines took up the unconscious pilot's duties. |
1935 Astounding Stories Oct. 25/2 | Somewhere gravity plates continued to function in this ancient wreck, for he had weight hereperhaps one-third Earth-normal. |
1949 I. Asimov Victory Unintentional in Invasion From Mars: Interplanetary Stories 147 | They had six legs apiece, stumpy and thick, designed to lift tons against two and a half times normal Earth gravity. Their reflexes were that many times Earth-normal speed, to make up for the gravity. |
1952 R. A. Heinlein Let. 16 July in R. A. Heinlein & V. Heinlein Grumbles from Grave (1990) 224 | He has never felt full earth-normal gravity. Absolutely everything about Earth is strange to him. |
1952 Astounding Sci. Fiction Feb. 73/1 | None of us have to pretend that our living arrangements would keep us out of jail in Boston, or that they have to involve any Earth-normal excuses. |
1952 R. A. Heinlein Let. 16 July in R. A. Heinlein & V. Heinlein Grumbles from Grave (1990) 224 | He has never felt full earth-normal gravity. Absolutely everything about Earth is strange to him. |
1956 M. Lesser Meet Miss Solar System in Fantastic Universe Apr. 53/2 | They'd rigged up a force-field on Eros, holding out the black cold of interplanetary space and holding in Earth-normal atmosphere and artificial gravity for the benefit of the Chairman of the Board of Judges. |
1956 R. A. Heinlein Double Star in Astounding Sci. Fiction Feb. 11/1 | There are a dozen other details which can't be set down in words; the point is you have to be a spaceman when you do it, with a spaceman's alert body and unconscious balanceyou have to live it. A city man blunders along on smooth floors all his life, steady floors with Earth-normal gravity, and will trip over a cigarette paper, like as not. Not so a spaceman. |
1993 V. E. Mitchell Windows on Lost World ii.12 | And it wasn't because a planet deviated from the Earth-normal conditions of the Enterprise. |
1993 V. E. Mitchell Windows on Lost World ix.126 | The creature had three triangular teeth that could have?broken the carapace of an Earth-normal crab. |
1997 W. Shatner Avenger vi. 45 | The designers?had specified a cylindrical aquarium, with an Earth-normal saltwater environment. |
1998 W. Shatner et al. Spectre xi. 132 | A display inside his helmet revealed that the exterior atmospheric pressure was 250 torr, about one-third Earth normal. |