psychohistorian n.
an expert in psychohistory n.
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1945
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Henry Kuttner
C. L. Moore
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I’m trying to look at it from the angle of psychohistorian. If there’d been telepaths in the past, things might have been different.
Piper’s Son in Astounding Science-Fiction Feb. 23/2 -
1948
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Emmett McDowell
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The semantics expert, the psychohistorian, and the ethnologist joined them.
Outcasts of Solar III in Planet Stories Spring 29/1 -
1949
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Isaac Asimov
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It is not an easy thing to be a Psychohistorian in the first place; and not even the best Psychohistorian need necessarily qualify to be a Speaker.
…And Now You Don’t in Astounding Science Fiction Nov. 18/2 -
1958
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Philip E. High
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Tomlin, the psycho-historian, you never could tell, could you?… A dry-as-dust profession and an appearance to go with it.
Lords of Creation in Nebula Science Fiction Dec. 80 -
1978
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Isaac Asimov
Back in 1950, I wrote a short story…. In it, the great psychohistorian, Hari Seldon, is about to demonstrate an important point.
Lost Art in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Feb. 110 -
1992
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Isaac Asimov
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Seldon crossed the grounds in his passage from his office (First Minister) to his laboratory (Psychohistorian).
Cleon the Emperor in Asimov’s Science Fiction Apr. 247 -
1996
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The stand-out story is ‘Historical Crisis’, by Donald Kingsbury. It is nothing more than a parody of The Foundation Trilogy…. It’s set in the Second Empire and concerns the fate of a renegade Psychohistorian.
Far Futures, Bright Reefs in Interzone (#103) Jan. 57/3
Research requirements
antedating 1945
Earliest cite
"Lewis Padgett", in Astounding
Research History
Suggested by Fred Galvin, who also submitted the 1945 cite.
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