> On Sat, 10 May 2008 22:59:48 -0500, Tom Hardy <rhardy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
> >I just submitted what is apparently the first SF citation
> >for "autochthones", referring to the indigenes of a planet or location.
I
> >found it in Drake and Wagner's 1985 _Killer_, but I'm sure I've heard
it
> >earlier than that.
You probably have, especially if you read Jack Vance.
In his short "Hard Luck Diggings", Magnus Ridolph rebukes a baddie for
violating a law iro "the treatment of friendly autochthones" on the planet
where he is working. That one is about as old as I am, having appeared in
_Startling Sotries_ in July 1948.
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Mike Stone - Peterborough, England
You can tell what God thinks of money by looking at the people He gives it
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