[Ads-l] Antedating "technothriller"

Bill Mullins amcombill at HOTMAIL.COM
Sun Jul 22 18:57:34 UTC 2018


OED has 1986, from the Washington Post

London _Observer_ 3 Dec 1978 p 36 col 8 [display ad]

"Techno-thriller by the man they call the new Le Carré."

(Is the OED SF Project still being updated?  This term appears in it.)



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