superscience n.

It [sc. Buck Rodgers] is packed with Love…Passion…Adventure…Thrills and the Super-science of Tomorrow in the Great Narrative Strip.

Astounding Stories of Super-Science

Lo! [sc. a column about science] is all any one could want in a department for information on superscience that has actually happened.

Opinion anent the late Charles Fort and his Lo!seems to be divided, but one thing is certain—that the bizarre occurrences reported to him are not manifestations of any superscience, as stated by the editors of Astounding Stories.

I like to write about ordinary people of the future, surrounded by gadgetry of super-science, but who, I feel sure, know no more about how the machinery works than a present day motorist knows of the laws of thermodynamics.

They [sc. the protagonists of early science-fiction stories] were essentially ordinary men, sometimes idealized, to the point of ridiculousness; outside of his mighty brain—reinforced by the super[-]science of Norlamin, etc.—Richard Seaton [a character in E. E. Smith’s Skylark series] was so common as to be prosaic. As dull a superman as you’d want to meet.

Take a man who had just died, keep his brain alive with super[-]science until a new body was ready, and then transfer the now slightly altered organ into the machine which was to be its new home.

People might be surprised that I list Hogan in the same sentence, considering his old-fashioned super-science plots and cardboard characters.

This magic day when super-science Mingles with the bright stuff of dreams.

People of the super[-]science tomorrow could easily be illiterate.

Some of them…are super-science epics which would have done F. Orlin Tremaine proud. Are you now consciously emulating…the science fiction you grew up reading?

But this is supposed to be kiloparsecs from home, ancient alien civilizations and all that! Where’s the exotic superscience? What about the neuron stars, strange matter suns structured for computing at nucleonic, rather than electronic, speeds?

‘Okay, here are the glove’s schematics—I based them off of one of Dr. Hall’s papers about particle acceleration. I, uh, I’m kind of a physics buff.’ ‘Hmm. I would need more specialized tools than I brought with me on this trip to make anything sophisticated enough to interact with this design.’ ‘Mind if I take a look? I actually spend a lot of time messing with super-science.’