new SF cites for the OED SF project

[Mark A. Mandel]

Bill Mullins writes:
> urban fantasy (OED SF Project has 1993; not in OED)
>  [Display Ad for St. Regis Hotel] New York Times Oct 29, 1928;
>  pg. 19/5 "Another Urban Fantasy, a bower of the tropic seas,
>  shimmering with emerald-gold and silver fin."
>
>  "An Urban Fantasy" New York Times Book Review Jul 25, 1937;
>  p. 7/4 [phrase appears only in title, not in body of article]

The hotel advertisement does not seem connected with the literary/SF use of
"urban fantasy". The book review headline may or may not; it could easily
have been coined by the reviewer or the editor to describe a story that
would not at all be considered "fantasy" in literary terms.

-- Mark A. Mandel
[This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]