What is "tellurian"

Usage examples of "tellurian".

Thus all normal space was permeated by Arisian life-spores, and thus upon all Earth-like or Tellurian planets there came into being races of creatures more or less resembling Arisians in the days of their racial youth.

Knowing nothing of the Arisians, or of what they had done to raise the level of intelligence of mankind, he assumed that the then completely ruined Earth would not require his personal attention again for many hundreds of Tellurian years, and went elsewhere: to Rigel Four, to Palain Seven, and to Velantia Two, or Delgon, where he found that his creatures, the Overlords, were not progressing satisfactorily.

All you have to know is that deep-space vessels and communicators cover distances in parsecs at practically the same rate that Tellurian automobiles and radios cover miles.

Rematching velocity this time was a simple matter, and upon the towering, powerfully resilient pillars of her landing-jets the inconceivable mass of the Tellurian ship of war settled toward the ground, as lightly seeming as a wafted thistledown.

I have known so few Tellurian Lensmen it tells me that you must be Kinnison, but I do not recognize you at all readily.

The Lensmen did not see the Tellurian, but Lieutenant Peter vanBuskirk did.

Boskone, whoever or whatever he or it might be, was already taking action upon what the Tellurian Lensman had done.

Lensman who, Helmuth believed, was the real force back of our recent intolerable reverses in the Tellurian Galaxy.

How we extended our sway into the Tellurian Galaxy, as a preliminary to the extension of our authority throughout all the populated galaxies of the macro-cosmic Universe.

Lensman held his breath, but the Medonians and the Tellurian technicians did not turn a hair as they mounted their new stations and tested their apparatus.

Then the Tellurian would get, some way or other, the information which the Patrol had to have, and the Velantian would get it back to Prime Base.

Lensman who has made it possible for the Patrol to drive us out of the Tellurian Galaxy?

I should then put what is left of him aboard his ship, start it toward the Tellurian Galaxy, and send notice to the Patrol as to its exact course and velocity.

It is true that I have not been able to discover any brain injury so far, but the process has not yet been applied to a Tellurian brain and I can offer no assurance whatever that some obscure injury will not result.

Shear-planes, hellish knives of force beside which Tellurian lightning is pale and wan, struck and struck and struck again-fiendishly, crunchingly.