planetbound
adjEtymology From planet + -bound.
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Unable to leave the planet one is on.
- I'll bet a hat that Isaac Asimov could knock us all for a row of uranium cans if he wrote about something a leetle more familiar to us poor planet-bound humans. This massive sweep of millions of light years and thousands of centuries away was hot stuff fifteen years ago. Isaac, please come home, all is forgiven.1953 July 23, George O. Smith, Space Science Fiction, page 94: