X-Message-Number: 18148
From: "john grigg" <>
Subject: science fiction terms in a prominent dictionary
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 04:02:44 

Anders Sandberg on the extrolist shared this interesting info:
Seems the OED is gathering the earliest citations of various sf words
(as well as sf criticism and sf fandom). Since this list is rather dense 
with people well read and writing sf, it might be worth a look. I notice 
that the word posthuman still has no earliest citation:

http://66.108.177.107/SF/sf_citations.shtml



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