OED requirements | antedating 1930 |
Earliest cite | Olaf Stapledon |
Comment | Enoch Forrester submitted a cite from a reprint of Robert Sheckley's "Milk Run"; Mike Christie verified it in the original 1954 magazine appearance. Fred Galvin submitted cites from a Project Gutenberg etext of "Brigands of the Moon" by Ray Cummings: we would like to verify this in the original publication (Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930), as this may antedate the earliest cite in the OED — the OED has a quotation from Olaf Stapledon in 1930. |
Last modified | 30 July, 2019 |
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1954 R. Sheckley in Galaxy Sept. 126/1 | I'm looking it up right now. Hmm⥠you didn't produce artificial gravity, did you?Of course. To let the Queels feed.Shouldn't have done thatâ¥. Queels are light-gravity creaturesâ¥. When they're subjected to an unusualfor themgravity, they shrink down to microscopic size, lose consciousness and die.But you told me to produce artificial gravity. |
1958 R. Cummings Brigands of Moon 66 | The magnetizer control under the chart-room was altered, our artificial gravity cut off. I felt the sudden lightness; I gripped the window casement and clung. |
1986 D. Carey Dreadnought v.69 | The ship whined, straining against its own artificial gravity, creating a gyro effect. |