L. Sprague de Camp

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ET n. 1939 L. S. de Camp 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.โ€™s.
extraterrestrial n. 1939 L. S. de Camp 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.โ€™s.
heroic fantasy n. 1961 L. S. de Camp Letter in Fantastic Oct. 124/1 Please, let us have some more of Leiberโ€™s 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 L. S. de Camp 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 L. S. de Camp 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 L. S. de Camp 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 L. Sprague de Camp Getaway on Krishna in 10 Story Fantasy Spring 79/2 Iโ€™m studying for a degree in xenanthropology, and for my thesis I took Krishnan religious customs.
xenological adj. 1950 L. S. de Camp 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 L. S. de Camp Animal-Cracker Plot in Astounding Science Fiction July 69/1 I know more about extraterrestrial life than most professional xenologists.
xenology n. 1949 L. S. de Camp Colorful Character in Thrilling Wonder Stories Dec. 134/2 โ€˜Want to see him too?โ€™ Schmidt shook his head. โ€˜For some reason Iโ€™ve never had much interest in the Dzlieri. If I ever get around to working on the xenology of Vishnu, then maybe Iโ€™ll take a squint.โ€™