OED SF database (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mark Mandel]

Very nice antedates. The second, by over a half-century, is especially
impressive.

On Feb 5, 2008 3:45 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC <Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil>
wrote:

> Classification:  UNCLASSIFIED
> Caveats: NONE
>
> OED SF Database has 1917 for the genre "horror"
>
> "The Magazines," [no author] _Philadelphia Inquirer_, 7/3/1898 V 139 #3,
> p. 22 col 4.
> [snip]
>

>

> OED SF Database has 1927 for the "Scientific Romance" [proto science
> fiction]
>
> "A Thrilling Accident"  _Easton [MD] Gazette_; Date: 12-09-1876; Volume:
> LX; Issue: 50; Page: [2]; col 4.
> [snip]



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