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"Why does a creative person create? It's a type of compulsion. I like to explore new ideas."
- Bart Kosko
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| Rocketrix | ||
| A female rocket pilot. |
Formed, I suppose, in the same way that "aviatrix" is formed from "aviator".
| Offhand, I’d have said it was the wildest sort of stupidity to send a girl with four men on a trip like this. Well, I had to hand it to Claire Avery; in that way she was a splendid rocketrix. She took the inconveniences of space routine without a murmur, and she was so companionable — that is, with the others — ^that it was like having a young and unusually entertaining man aboard. |
| Technovelgy from Redemption Cairn,
by Stanley G. and Helen Weinbaum. Published by Astounding Science Fiction in 1936 Additional resources -
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I'm not aware of any other story that uses this expression.
Compare to robotess from R.U.R. (1920) by Karel Capek.
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