From: Warren Ockrassa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[email protected]>
To: Killer Bs Discussion <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Are You a Science-Fiction Scholar? (Quiz)
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 22:27:35 -0700
On Jul 14, 2005, at 6:50 PM, Travis Edmunds wrote:
From: Warren Ockrassa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gernsback didn't exactly invent the term science fiction; IIRC the one he
came up with originally was "scientifiction".
Which he later changed to "science fiction" according to the brief
synopsis the quiz gave.
Yeah, but IIRC he changed it after getting pressured into it, either by
other editors or possibly authors. I could be wrong though.
From what I've been able to gather through some cursory spelunking, you're
partly correct. But either way I can't find any concrete information on the
exact circumstances surrounding the term. Scientifiction, which Gernsback
_did_ come up with, appears to be inexorably linked to the coining of the
term "science fiction" through rejection of the former. But whether or not
him or his editors or his contemporaries actually invented it, Hugo seems to
be getting all the credit all the same.
-Twavis
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