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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social

Dunno. Some authors have called earth Tellus (a poetic Latin word for earth) and inhabitants by analogy Tellurians. Trek goes for “Earth” and “humans”. Fascinatingly the sf dictionary has an 1828 citation for tellurian. sfdictionary.com/view/120/tel...

aug 31, 2025, 11:50 am • 3 0

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social

The demonyms page of that site has also: earthan, earther, earthian, earthite, earthling, earthman, earthsider, terranian, terrene, terrestrial, and terrestrian. Terran is honestly better than all of those. Especially terrene which should be a sort of pâté.

aug 31, 2025, 11:58 am • 2 0 • view
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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social

This is all in English sf, of course. I wonder what non-English sf has done.

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