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Re: Tractor beam?
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Thu, 28 Dec 2000 20:48:40 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Dave Schuler writes:
> > Does anyone know who coined this term and when it might first have crept
> > into the scifi lexicon?
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> To answer your question, I want to go with E.E. "Doc" Smith and the Lensman
> series but I might be wrong. The concept of a force beam that can push or
> pull things, no matter how named, considerably predates Star Trek.
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> BTW: It's SF or Science Fiction... scifi is the term used by mundanes. :-)
> You're not one of *those*, are you?
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> ++Lar
The term may be older, but I am positive of its reference in the Lensman
series. He also used "pressor", "force field/shield" and many other SF terms
used commonly today.
Wayne
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| (...) To answer your question, I want to go with E.E. "Doc" Smith and the Lensman series but I might be wrong. The concept of a force beam that can push or pull things, no matter how named, considerably predates Star Trek. BTW: It's SF or Science (...) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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