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Jeff Prucher's Brave new words gives its earliest attestation for the word as Niven's Warriors in 1966.
by JdeBP 7y ago
Jeff Prucher's Brave new words gives its earliest attestation for the word as Niven's Warriors in 1966.
- ghaff 7y agoI would have guessed Heinlein but I don't see evidence he used that particular term although he had similar tropes in his books--e.g. Loonies in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
- JdeBP 7y agoFor similar tropes, see the meteor miners in E.E. Smith's Grey Lensman.
- rootbear 7y agoOh, that looks like an interesting book! I read a lot of Niven back in college and I wondered if he invented the word "Belter", for Asteroid Belt dwellers.