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"the [science fiction] writer should be able to convince the reader (and himself) that the wonders he is describing really can come true...and that gets tricky when you take a good, hard look at the world around you."
- Frederik Pohl
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| Home Planet | ||
| Usually the birthplace of your species or simply your planet of origin. |
I don't know of an earlier use of this expression.
| I noticed that he said "We are created;" not "We create ourselves." This led to some talk on religion; and he told us a good deal about his home planet. |
| Technovelgy from In the Deep of Time,
by George Parsons Lathrop. Published by Not known in 1897 Additional resources -
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Olaf Stapledon used this expression in Last and First Men (1930):
John Campbell used this phrase in his story Black Star Passes, published later the same year in Amazing Stories Quarterly:
Leo Zagat uses it in The Great Dome of Mercury in 1932:
Murray Leinster used it in Exploration Team in 1956:
The Martian colonists, when they observed man’s disorganization, prepared, at the instigation of the home planet, a very great offensive.
We may pursue the Nigrians all the way to their home planets, to make sure they stay right there until their star has passed entirely out of our region.
They were queer-looking specimens, these gentle, willing allies of the Earthmen. Their home planet is a place of ever-clouded skies and constant torrential rains.
There was need, on my home planet, for an animal who could fight like a fiend, live off the land, carry a pack and get along with men at least as well as dogs do.
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