[Ads-l] SF antedatings

[Mark Mandel]

1951 _Planet Stories_ Mar 39/2 [Internet Archive]
"Mounting my worple (Gruzlaks are out of fashion), and slinging my Zap-gun
across my muscular, sunbrozed shoulders, I gallop off into the purple
*prose*."

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On Sat, Jun 27, 2020, 6:44 PM Bill Mullins <amcombill at hotmail.com> wrote:

> xenolinguist
> OED SF Project has 1988; not in OED
>
> 1955 Algis Budrys, "The Strange Room" _Fantastic Universe_ Jan 70/1
> [Internet Archive]
> "'I can prove it,' the xenolinguist said, still softly."
>
> zap gun
> OED SF Project has 1954; OED has 1969
>
> 1934 _Pittsburgh [PA] Post-Gazette_ 25 Oct 3/2 [newspapers.com]
> "Buck Rogers Zap Gun  50¢" [advertisement]
>
> 1935 _Hartford [CT] Courant_ 24 Dec 12/4  [newspapers.com]
> "To be sure, one of the more popular numbers this year is what seems to be
> called the zap gun or disintegrator."
> 1951 _Planet Stories_ Mar 39/2 [Internet Archive]
> "Mounting my worple (Gruzlaks are out of fashion), and slinging my Zap-gun
> across my muscular, sunbrozed shoulders, I gallop off into the purple dusk."
>
> https://archive.org/details/Planet_Stories_v04n11_1951-03_Missing_ifc_AK/page/n40/mode/1up?q=%22zap+gun%22
>
>
>
> Zero-G
> OED SF Project has 1952; OED has 1950
> 1940 _Detroit [MI] Free Press Magazine_ 9 Jun 6/1 [newspapers.com]
> "'Recovery,' he said, 'occurred in a few seconds following or during a
> return to zero G (the level) and beyond a brief period of apparent
> bewilderment, no other effects were noted.' "
>
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