Full record for fantastic adj.
| Definition | having the quality of fantasy |
| OED requirements | antedating 1934 |
| Earliest cite | Hugo Gernsback in Wonder Stories |
| Comment | Jeff Prucher submitted a 1971 cite from Sam Lundwall's "Science Fiction: What It's All About".
Jeff Prucher submitted a 1935 cite from a letter in Wonder Stories by Forrest Ackerman.
Jeff Prucher submitted a 1934 cite from editorial comments by Hugo Gernsback in Wonder Stories.
Jeff Prucher submitted a 2002 cite from a blurb by Paul Di Filippo in Polyphony 1.
Mark English submitted a 1974 cite from a reprint of Clark Ashton Smith's 1931 "Out of Space and Time"; we would like to verify the original publication in the July 1931 Wonder Stories.
Irene Grumman submited a cite from a 1971 reprint of Harry Harrison's 1970 anthology "Nova One".
John Locke submitted a cite from Otis Adelbert Kline's "Writing the Fantastic Story" in an (unpaginated) electronic verion of The Writer from January 1931; we would like to verify this in a print edition. |
| Last modified | 6 July, 2008 |
Citations for fantastic adj.
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| 1934 Wonder Stories Feb. 793/1 | Any one who can enjoy the beautiful tales of Clark Ashton Smith can really appreciate fantastic literature. |
| 1935 F. J. Ackerman in Wonder Stories Feb. 1139/1 | ‘The Final Struggle’ unfortunately impressed me as being very bad as a science-fictional, fantastic, or any kind of story. |