L. Sprague de Camp
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ET n. | 1939 | Design for Life in Astounding Science-Fiction May 103/1 I was moved to concoct that fragment as a result of running through a file of magazines and comparing the ideas of the writers on the form that intelligent extra-terrestrials might have. The authors are nothing if not industrious in devising a variety of shapes for their e.-t.โs.
extraterrestrial n. | 1939 | Design for Life in Astounding Science-Fiction May 103/1 I was moved to concoct that fragment as a result of running through a file of magazines and comparing the ideas of the writers on the form that intelligent extra-terrestrials might have. The authors are nothing if not industrious in devising a variety of shapes for their e.-t.โs.
heroic fantasy n. | 1961 | Letter in Fantastic Oct. 124/1 Please, let us have some more of Leiberโs Fafhrd-Mouser stories! Leiber is the only man now writing heroic fantasy, and this is a genre which gives a number of readers, when well done, and including myself, the purest pleasure we get out of any kind of fiction printed.
space-operatic adj. | 1953 | Science-Fiction Handbook 162 His stories are space-operatic with a strong technological bent; little characterization or motivation, but lots of fast action, cosmic gadgetry, and ribald wit.
subgenre n. | 1955 | Readin' & Writhin' in Science Fiction Quarterly Aug. 39/2 Dunsany, a giant in the small sub-genre of modern fantasy, influenced the Lovecraft-Weird Tales school of fantasy-writers that flowered in the thirties.
time-slip n. | 1941 | Lest Darkness Fall i. 13 No, the hypothesis of delirium might be a tough one, but it offered fewer difficulties than that of the time-slip.
xenoanthropology n. | 1951 | Getaway on Krishna in 10 Story Fantasy Spring 79/2 Iโm studying for a degree in xenanthropology, and for my thesis I took Krishnan religious customs.
xenological adj. | 1950 | Hand of Zei in Astounding Science Fiction Oct. 47/1 Where xenological investigations were concerned, George could take as detached and impersonal an attitude towards Krishnans as if they were microorganisms under his microscope.
xenologist n. | 1949 | Animal-Cracker Plot in Astounding Science Fiction July 69/1 I know more about extraterrestrial life than most professional xenologists.
xenology n. | 1949 | Colorful Character in Thrilling Wonder Stories Dec. 134/2 โWant to see him too?โ Schmidt shook his head. โFor some reason Iโve never had much interest in the Dzlieri. If I ever get around to working on the xenology of Vishnu, then maybe Iโll take a squint.โ