[Ads-l] antedating Warp Speed

[Jonathan Lighter]

Didn't they discover this in the second season of the inimitable original
Star Trek?

JL

On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 5:30 PM Bill Mullins <amcombill at hotmail.com> wrote:

> warp speed
> OED SF Project and OED have 1977
>
> 1952 Fox B. Holden "Yachting Party"  _Imagination_  Jan 95/2 [Internet
> Archive]
> "'Free' speed, with old-fashioned fuel-eating jets which were supposed to
> be carried as emergency power units only, was forty thousand miles a second
> at best -- warp-speed, depending on the dimension you used, had a top of
> better than a thousand light-years a minute."
>
> https://archive.org/details/Imagination_v03n01_1952-01_LennyS-cape1736/page/n94/mode/1up?q=%22warp+speed%22
>
> 1973 _Fantasy & Science Fiction_ Aug 162/2 [Internet Archive]
> [classified ad] "Alien Space costs $4 and gives each player command of a
> warp speed starship, equipped with blazers, shields, sensors, main and
> auxiliary engines, life support systems, etc."
>
> https://archive.org/details/Fantasy_Science_Fiction_v045n02_1973-08/page/n82/mode/1up?q=%22warp+speed%22
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