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  • noun Plural form of Lunarian.

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Examples

  • Gruithuisen also proposed that because the moon was closer to the sun, its jungles grew faster than those in Brazil and that the Lunarians held fire festivals, which caused the bright caps on Venus.

    Marc Hartzman: A Touch of Knowledge: The Man-Bats on the Moon Marc Hartzman 2012

  • Fantastic as were his surroundings, mysterious as were the activities of the Lunarians and of Carter, his old Earth spirits and courage were returning.

    "Once in a Blue Moon" by Harl Vincent, part 4 Johnny Pez 2009

  • These metal balls, the true Lunarians, were capable of existence without an atmosphere and without food.

    "Once in a Blue Moon" by Harl Vincent, part 4 Johnny Pez 2009

  • I'm not going to Lunacon -- I thought I was, until I was made a far better offer (I love you crazy Lunarians, but you cannot compete with a phone call that starts off "Can you get to Miami?").

    convention schedules suricattus 2006

  • But this year Lunacon, the regional convention sponsored by the New York City based fan group the Lunarians, was held at the Sheraton Hotel in the Meadowlands, which is less than an hour away from me.

    Archive 2005-03-01 adamosf 2005

  • But this year Lunacon, the regional convention sponsored by the New York City based fan group the Lunarians, was held at the Sheraton Hotel in the Meadowlands, which is less than an hour away from me.

    Lunacon adamosf 2005

  • Meanwhile back in the solar system, the Cybercosm is cementing its control over a recovering Earth, and bringing humanity back to the nest by shutting down Martian terraforming and out thinking the fiercely independent Lunarians out in the Oort Cloud.

    The Friday Night "Buffy Watching" Review: The Fleet Of Stars sbisson 2002

  • The dog is chatting with Mason and Dixon and a sailor named Bodine (the avatar of a certain naval hipster who turns up in many of Pynchon's books, though happily infrequently in this one) while "a small, noisy party of Fops, Macaronis, or Lunarians, — it is difficult quite to distinguish which, — has been working its way up the street and into Ear-shot."

    Entropology Menand, Louis 1997

  • Sometimes he had speculated that "pride" might serve-but no, Lunarians weren't lions either.

    The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

  • He was more-all right, more human, more open than most Lunarians.

    The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

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