[Ads-l] Another Early CItation for "Science Fiction"

[Shapiro, Fred]

The OED and Stephen Goranson have found citations for the term "science fiction" as far back as 1897 and 1898.  Here is what seems to be the third oldest known example:

1906 _Boston Evening Transcript_ 24 Apr. 10/5 (Newspapers.com)  The author [H. G. Wells], as in his odd Science ficiton, bounds dariingly from peak to peak of high thinking.

Fred Shapiro

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