Full record for transhumanity n.

Definition	the quality or condition of being transhuman; also, transhumans collectively
OED requirements	antedating 1978
Earliest cite	R. C. W. Ettinger in 'Immortal: Short Novels of the Transhuman Future'
Comment	Malcolm Farmer submitted a 2001 cite from Mark Pesche's "True Magic". Douglas Winston submitted a 1999 cite from Rudy Rucker's "Saucer Wisdom". Ralf Brown located and Steven Silver submitted a 1991 cite from George Zebrowski's "Stranger Suns". Michael Dolbear submitted a cite from a 1996 reprint of Greg Egan's 1995 "Wang's Carpets". Michael Dolbear submitted a 1995 cite from Ian MacDonald's "Evolution's Shore". Irene Grumman submitted a 1993 cite from a book review by Baird Searles. Irene Grumman submitted a 1978 cite from R.C.W. Ettingers's introduction to the anthology "Immortal: Short Novels of the Transhuman future" (Ed. by Jack Dann) We would like cites of any date from other sources.
Last modified	6 July, 2008

Citations for transhumanity n.

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1978 R. C. W. Ettinger Introduction: Transhuman Condition ix	Moving right along, let's add transhumanity to immortality; now we are in the big time. But it will tax any writer's skill just to convince a human that the way from here is up.
1991 G. Zebrowski Stranger Suns 293	He imagined his colony of ever-changing trans-humanity, each generation reaching deeper into the beast to clear away evolution's stubborn residues, and himself wandering across the colony's variants, an estranged Moses crossing and recrossing the river Jordan, always hearing something different on a changing Sinai.
1991 E. Regis Great Mambo Chicken & Transhuman Condition 308	Transhumanity.
1994 I. McDonald Necroville (1995) 165	The Isolationists pressed for the immediate expansion of the extant Clades across all the solar system, the establishment and recognition of a dead transhumanity that had severed all ties with planet-bound humanity.
1995 I. McDonald Evolution's Shore 234	I do not understand these things well. I do not know about Australopithecus and evolution and what you call transhumanity, posthumanity.
1995 G. Egan Wang's Carpets in G. Bear & M. H. Greenberg New Legends 399	You don't need me to safeguard the future of Carter-Zimmerman on your behalf. Or the future of transhumanity. You can do it in person.
2001 M. Pesche in True Magic in True Names & Opening of Cyberspace Frontier 236	The Feds, in the end, had to rely on Roger and Erythrina to save civilization, because they had mastered the lost arts of trans-humanity, they were ready to boot-up into being beyond anything they had ever known.