scientifiction n.
Now chiefly hist.
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Genre
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1916
Hugo Gernsback
I am supposed to report Münchhaussen’s [sic] doings; am supposed to be writing fiction, scientifiction, to be correct.
in Electrical Experimenter Jan. 474/1 -
1938 Tales of Wonder No. 2 123 (advt.)
Scientifiction: The British Fantasy Review.
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1941 Thrilling Wonder Stories Jan. 122
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You're not a full-fledged scientifiction fan unless you own a membership card in the Science Fiction League. Thousands of science-fictioneers the world over belong to this active, international organization devoted to fantasy fans' fraternization.
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1942
Anthony Boucher
But infinite numbers of pulp paper scientifiction magazines and those curious mimeographed fan bulletins that are known by the portmanteau name of fanzines, a complete set of Fowler Foulkes, almost as reverently bound as Hilary’s, a goodly lot of Shiel and Stapledon.
Rocket to Morgue 135
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1951
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Why should scientifiction magazines publish only scientifiction?
Letter in Marvel Science Stories May 120/2
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1986
William Gibson
It’s a devastating refutation of ‘scientifiction’ in its guise as narrow technolatry.
Burning Chrome Pref. 10
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1994
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Charles Platt
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It catalyzed the growing awareness of style and technique in science fiction and interrupted the tradition of clumsy formula writing which had persisted, in various guises, ever since the birth of ‘scientifiction’ in the 1920s.
Carnival of Angst in Interzone Sept. 33/2
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2008
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Jo Walton
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We surprised the maid, who was sitting down reading a battered copy of the old scientifiction novel Nineteen Seventy-Four.
Half a Crown xv. 183
Research requirements
antedating 1916
Earliest cite
Hugo Gernsback in Electrical Experimenter
Research History
Fred Galvin submitted a 1951 cite from a letter by Malcolm Gibbs in Marvel Science Stories.Ben Ostrowsky submitted a 2008 cite from Jo Walton's alternate-history "Half a Crown".
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