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| Eetee (E.T. - extraterrestrial) | ||
| A sentient being not of this Earth. |
I think this is the first use of the phrase in an actual story; see below for possible earlier uses.
| Next, my radio message stating that an eetee was at large was definitely premature, and I wish to apologize for crying “Wolf” unnecessarily. At the time, however, it seemed wiser to take no chances. |
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by Thomas Wilson. Published by Astounding Science Fiction in 1953 Additional resources -
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Ah, the life of a Martian politician... from Double Star (1956) by Robert Heinlein:
The first person to use 'ET' was probably L. Sprague de Camp in a column in Astounding Science Fiction from 1939:
I was knocked out the first time when we finally put the eetees — Venerians and Martians and Outer Jovians — into the Grand Assembly. But the nonhuman peoples are still there and I came back.
I was moved to concoct that fragment as a result of running through a file of magazines and comparing the ideas of the writers on the form that intelligent extra-terrestrials might have. The authors are nothing if not industrious in devising a variety of shapes for their e.-t's.
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