sf adj.

= science fiction adj.

SF Criticism

  • 1929 Science Wonder Stories June 92/3 page image

    [In a list of proposed titles for a science-fiction magazine:] The S.F. Magazine. (Science-Fiction).

  • 1931 C. Bessette Not Many Likes in Astounding Stories Nov. 278/2 (letter) page image Carlyle J. Bessette bibliography

    There must be some adventure and romance in the real S.F. stories, but good science must be mixed in it. [Ibid. 279/1] You must have more science in the stories if you want to make a real S.F. magazine out of Astounding Stories.

  • 1940 Correspondence Corner in Amazing Stories June 140 page image

    Would like to correspond with S-F fans between 15 and 18…. Would like to trade or sell S-F magazines.

  • 1950 R. A. Hoen Letter in Astounding Science Fiction Mar. 156/2 page image Richard A. Hoen bibliography

    I blinked twice…in wonder that you had succeeded in getting so many of the top authors in the whole SF field into one issue.

  • 1965 Growing Pains—And Pleasures in Worlds of If Aug. 4/2 (editorial) page image Frederik Pohl bibliography

    It seems to be the nature of the beast that the longer sf stories are usually more fun to read than the short ones.

  • 1977 P. K. Dick in We can Remember It for you Wholesale (1994) 493 Philip K. Dick

    I used to dig in the garden, and there is nothing fantastic or ultradimensional about crab grass…unless you are an sf writer, in which case pretty soon you are viewing crab grass with suspicion.

  • 1991 Locus Nov. 5/3

    We’re using more and more speculative non-fiction from sf writers.

  • 1993 D. Kvergas Letter in Science Fiction Age Jan. 8/2 page image

    Yet you’re planning to feature fantasy also. Mistake—S.F. fans don’t really want fantasy, or else they'd request it.

  • 2005 C. Morgan in Interzone (#197) Mar.–Apr. 4/2 page image

    Worldcon is the place to be. It is the sf industry’s premiere networking event.

  • 2017 R. Horton in Locus Mar. 54/1 page image Rich Horton bibliography

    The New Yorker has a real SF story in the January 16 issue, albeit one that is pretty overtly using its SF elements to help illuminate a somewhat cynical look at a pretty bog-standard corporate raider trying to achieve redemption.


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antedating 1929

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In the compilation of some entries, HDSF has drawn extensively on corresponding entries in OED.