Citations:scientifiction

English citations of scientifiction

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• 1916 January, Hugo Gernsback, Electrical Experimenter, page 474:

  I am supposed to report Münchhaussen's^[sic] doings; am supposed to be writing fiction, scientifiction, to be correct.

• 1926, Hugo Gernsback, Amazing Stories, A New Sort of Magazine:

  There is the usual fiction magazine, the love story and the sex-appeal type of magazine, the adventure type, and so on, but a magazine of "Scientifiction" is a pioneer in its field in America. By "scientifiction" I mean the Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe type of story—a charming romance intermingled with scientific fact and prophetic vision.

• 1932, Progress & the Scientific Worker, issue 6:

  The present age is, by common consent, full of marvels, but there is none to sing of them. That United States product, Scientifiction, is perhaps the crude forerunner of a literature which shall be consonant with progress and material welfare.

• 1946, C. S. Lewis, The Great Divorce, p. vii:

  Firstly, I must acknowledge my debt to a writer whose name I have forgotten and whom I read several years ago in a highly coloured American magazine of what they call "Scientifiction."

• 1949, Chad Walsh, C. S. Lewis: Apostle to the Skeptics:

  In form, they resemble the interplanetary fiction of H. G. Wells and the "scientifiction" of American pulp magazines, but there is a clear difference. Lewis's novels are the scientifiction of a philosopher.

• 1953, The American Mercury, volume 77, p. 26:

  There has become immensely popular, these days, a kind of tale that has earned a special name: scientifiction.

• 1975, Jack Williamson, The Early Williamson, p. xvi:

  The realization of scientifiction is proverbial. Science has made hardly a single step that scientifiction has not foretold. And science, in return, has disclosed a million new and startling facts, to serve as wings for the scientifiction author's brain.

• 1990, Robert Lambourne, Michael Shallis & Michael Shortland, Close Encounters?: Science and Science Fiction, →ISBN, p. 17:

  In 1923 Gernsback published a special 'Science Fiction Number' of Science and Innovation that included six science fiction stories (partly to get rid of a backlog that had built up), and in 1924 he sent out circulars inviting readers to subscribe to a new magazine he intended to call Scientifiction.

• 1999, Dean Wesley Smith, Captain Proton: Defender of the Earth, "The Ruination of Scientifiction", →ISBN, p. 109:

  If scientifiction as a healthy and evolving genre dies, you'd better believe it takes Captain Proton with it.

• 1999, Gwyneth A. Jones, Deconstructing the Starships, →ISBN, p. 192:

  The space flight wildly imagined by the scientifiction of the genre's early days was just within the bounds of prediction, and it has duly happened (though so far on a somewhat more modest scale than envisaged).

• 2002, Patrick Lucanio & Gary Coville, Smokin' Rockets, →ISBN, p. 1:

  The Red Scare and science fiction, we soon learned, were only part of a greater story about the human spirit that began with the controversial origins of science fiction itself, with the scientifiction of Hugo Gernsback in the late 1920s.