science-fictionist n.
a writer or aficionado of science fiction n. 2
SF Criticism
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1929
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Moved by a vast curiosity we beseech the science fictionist to create new tools and adapt them to use. We delight in the warp of Romance woven into the cloth of Fancy.
Letter in Science Wonder Stories Aug. 279/2 -
1932
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The chief function of the science fictionist is to entertain and broaden the minds of his audience.
Letter in Amazing Stories Jan. 952/2 -
1936
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The aforementioned story is not the science-fiction type, meaning that it is not the sensational type that makes every science-fictionist heart beat faster.
Letter in Astounding Stories Feb. 157/1 -
1954
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A very convenient place to stop as we have, as yet, no conception of gases of negative pressure; but just surely the place for a Science-Fictionist to start.
Letter in Planet Stories Fall 55/1 -
1978
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A. E. van Vogt
I am known as a hardcore science fictionist.
Interview in Galileo #8 8/3 -
1991 Locus Sept. 72/3
Itβs flattering, in a perverse sort of way, to keep getting awards even from a country that persists in stealing your work. But isnβt there some way that the international community of science-fictionists can persuade these guys to ask permission before taking stuff?
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1998
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Robert Silverberg
I've tried to absorb them casually, like the forward-looking science-fictionist I've been for most of my live: simply nodding with quiet pleasure at each stunning announcement.
in Asimovβs Science Fiction June 7/2 -
2007
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Walter Mosley
There were a few customers looking at photographs of lichen growing on boulders in different parts of the world. The formations were like maps of alien planets drawn up by astronomers or science fictionists.
Killing Johnny Fry 260
Research requirements
antedating 1929
Earliest cite
in a letter to Science Wonder Stories
Research History
Ben Ostrowsky submitted a 2007 cite from Walter Mosley.
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