1970 J. Blish Spock must Die! vii. 52 | The fireball swelled intolerably as the matter and anti-matter in the doomed Klingon's warp-drive. |
1971 J. Blish Star Trek 4 24 | Starship, phaser banks, energy from anti-matter, the whole bit. |
1971 J. Blish Star Trek 4 45 | The whole lot touchier than a raw anti-matter pile over the Coridian question. |
1973 A. C. Clarke Rendezvous with Rama (1974) 20 | Nothing whatsoever had happened when the expanding cloud of vapour arrived on targetand a matter anti-matter reaction involving even a few milligrams would have produced an awesome firework display. |
1974 J. Blish Star Trek 10 20 | Or, more specifically, one of them matterand the other one, antimatter! |
1979 O. Davies in O. Davis Omni Bk. of Space 104 | Even now, antimatter is being made. |
1982 S. Cooper Black Fire i.48 | The vehicle had warp potential, a matter/antimatter drive, and a life-support system as sophisticated as any he had ever seen. |
1983 S. Marshak & M. Culbreath Triangle xiii. 73 | We are playing with anti-matter. |
1986 D. Carey Battlestations! iv.57 | You can tell me I'm sucking antimatter. |
1987 D. Brin Uplift War 291 | At the edge of the forest Athaclena saw their special weapons team begin setting up their only antimatter projectors. |
1989 J. M. Dillard Lost Years xiv. 275 | It would probably take an antimatter reaction just to knock the Vulcan unconscious. |
1989 J. M. Dillard Lost Years vi. 125 | This stuff burned like raw antimatter going down. |
1990 G. Bear Queen of Angels (1991) i.iv. 20 | When the antimatter drive ceased some four years after launch, AXIS entered a cold, quiet mode, its functions reduced to the simplest routine of maintenance, sensing and launch of transponders. |
1990 F. Pohl World at End of Time (1993) 13 | If he got desperate enough he could even dial up the teaching machines and please his parents with a few hours' study of algebra or antimatter engine maintenance or the history of the Holy Roman Empire. |
1993 D. Carey Great Starship Race ix. 140 | The result is highly ionized particles, hard radiation, dust, debris, and an above normal content of residual antimatter. |
1993 Sci. Fiction Age Jan. 40/1 | In its holotank a slowly changing blue and red analog-array showed the ship's position in relation to the gravity wells of the matter and antimatter suns of spaceplus and spaceminus impinging into nullspace. |
1994 Analog Science Fiction & Fact Jan. 154/1 | The loss was going into positive He-4antimatterwhich was not detachable. |
1995 SFRA Rev. May 43 | Early 19th-century British explorers discover a meteorite of anti-icefrozen anti-matter that reacts only when thawed. |
1996 J. Gunn Joy Machine xiv. 209 | It wouldn't be difficult to jury-rig a devicesay an antimatter payload contained within a neutronium shell. |
1996 W. Shatner Return v. 31 | Picard recognized the glimmer of an antimatter reaction. |
1996 W. Shatner Return viii. 58 | The hull of the Starship Enterprise had been built to withstand asteroidal impact, Iopene antimatter streams. |
1997 W. Shatner Avenger ii. 15 | They are antimatter mines. |
1998 C. Pellegrino Afterword in C. Pellegrino & G. Zebrowski Star Trek: Next Generation: Dyson Sphere (1999) 209 | The Dooglasse shipâ¥is in fact an antimatter propelled Valkyrie (most relativistic rockets, just like most supersonic transport jets, are bound to look alike). |
1998 W. Shatner et al. Spectre vii. 70 | The lunar pioneers had found the ice and mined itâ¥to manufacture the antimatter used to fuel the new warp ships. |
1998 L. A. Graf & M. J. Friedman War Dragons xvii. 268 | Randomly selected casualtiesâ¥willingly sacrificed their lives in antimatter chambers. |