Full record for alternative future n.
| Definition | = alternate future |
| OED requirements | antedating 1939 |
| Earliest cite | C. L. Moore, 'Greater than Gods' |
| Comment | Fred Galvin submitted a cite from a 1983 reprint of C. L. Moore's 1939 "Greater than Gods"; Mike Christie verified it in the first publication.
We would like cites of any date from other authors. |
| Last modified | 6 July, 2008 |
Citations for alternative future n.
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| 1941 Astounding Sci.-Fiction July 88/2 | A man enters a house and wonders whether to go upstairs or downstairs. He doesn't know it, but if he goes up he'll meet a girl whom he'll marry and if he goes down he'll meet a man who'll murder him. Now at the moment he enters the house and wonders which to do, there are two alternatively possible futures awaiting him—murder or marriage. His choice decides which of those futures he shall enter and make real for himself, although in theory each alternative future may coexist and be real unto itself. |
| 1941 Astounding Sci.-Fiction July 88/2 | A man enters a house and wonders whether to go upstairs or downstairs. He doesn't know it, but if he goes up he'll meet a girl whom he'll marry and if he goes down he'll meet a man who'll murder him. Now at the moment he enters the house and wonders which to do, there are two alternatively possible futures awaiting him—murder or marriage. His choice decides which of those futures he shall enter and make real for himself, although in theory each alternative future may coexist and be real unto itself. |