[Ads-l] Another (Possible) Early Occurrence of the Term "Science Fiction"

[Shapiro, Fred]

Thanks for the correction, Jesse !  I actually thought from the snippet that the font looked early-20th-century.

Fred Shapiro


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The page number is correct, but the date is not. Hathi Trust shows that this is from the issue of October 24, 1970.

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Jesse Sheidlower

On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 03:01:50PM +0000, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
> I see a Google Books snippet that has the following text included: "The science fiction of Jules Verne, in which many of the heroes were Englishmen, reached English boys ..."
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> The snippet appears to be from volume 1 of the Medical Journal of Australia (1914), p. 770.  I have not attempted to verify that from the print.
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> Fred Shapiro
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