Heinlein invented the term ‘moonbat’
2nd September 2006
Hey, don’t take my word for it. Read what the New York Times’ William Safire has to say in this column about the language of the Blogopshere:
So that was the coinage, right? Wait — a late entry comes in from Matt Rudary of the Heinlein Society, which has a concordance of the works of the pioneering sci-fi writer Robert Heinlein. In his 1947 short story “Space Jockey,� he named the third stage of a rocket to the moon the Moonbat, and in another story a year later, “The Black Pits of Luna,� one Heinlein character was the scoutmaster of the Moonbat Patrol.
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