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[Fred Shapiro]

On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Dan Goodman wrote:

> I believe (though I'm not certain) that Gernsback also coined "science
> fiction".

Note that there is an 1851 example of _science fiction_ (contributed,
although not discovered, by me) in the OED.


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