July 26, 2010
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Answer:
Jack WIlliamson, in this issue of Astounding – was the first to use the word Terraforming. I’ll accept Contraterrene matter also.
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First appeared in this ASF issue. July 1942.
First exposure of the term contraterrene matter, (better known as antimatter) to the common man ( read : scifi geeks ).
Also in the same story: terraforming
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The 2nd image is picture of an old Jack.
Also coined by the same chap:
“genetic engineering, paceport, prime directive, ion drive, Tellurian, neutronium”
Jack Williamson. In his own words (Borrowed from technovelgy.com):
“He had been the original claimant of Obania, forty years ago; and Drake was the young spatial engineer he employed to terraform the little rock, only two kilometers through—by sinking a shaft to its heart for the paragravity installation, generating oxygen and water from mineral oxides, releasing absorptive gases to trap the feeble heat of the far-off Sun.
From Collision Orbit, by Jack Williamson.
Published by Astounding in 1941″
Technically he used the pen name “Will Stewart and the issue was July 1942.
Page from the original manuscript:
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The word “Robotics” was first used in print by Isaac Asimov, in his science fiction short story “Liar!”, published in May 1941 in Astounding Science Fiction.
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Astounding Science Fiction and the man is L Ron Hubbard?
Dianetics must be the term.
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Scientology
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By this month,January 1943, the core of “Astounding” writers were in the
military .
So John W. Campbell,editor of Astounding Science Fiction brought Henry Kuttner (popular in “Unknown”) into “Astounding” under the pseudonym
“Lewis Padgett”, starting in this issue with the story “Time Locker”
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hard SF ? p.miller who coined the term ….
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united we stand
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John W. Campbell – Golden Age of Science Fiction
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Pic 2 Jack williamson
the term is “psionics”
Williamson did contribute many other words through his writings : “genetic engineering” , “terraforming”