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Google's Ngram Viewer shows that the term "Space Marine" was in use for quite a while before W40K's 1987 release but there was a big increase after 1987. At a g
by sxp 14y ago
Google's Ngram Viewer shows that the term "Space Marine" was in use for quite a while before W40K's 1987 release but there was a big increase after 1987. At a glance, the trend seems to be similar to trends for other related terms such as "powered armor" but doesn't match the trend for "Warhammer".
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=space+marine%2Cspace+marines&year_start=1940&year_end=2010&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share= http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=space+marine%2C...
- riazrizvi 14y agoAmazon itself sells a few books with the term. Why doesn't the author ask Amazon to take down the other non-Warhammer titles or reinstate his? http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_pg_9?rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3A%22space+marine%22&page=9&sort=daterank&keywords=%22space+marine%22&ie=UTF8&qid=1360179344 http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_pg_9?rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3A%22s...
- danielweber 14y agoI only saw one entry on the first page of those results that had the term and wasn't a GW license.