Full record for superscientific adj.

Definition	of or pertaining to super-science
OED requirements	antedating 1930
Earliest cite	in Amazing Stories
Comment	Mike Christie submitted a cite from the letter column of the December 1940 Astounding. Fred Galvin submitted a 1947 cite from an editorial by Raymond A. Palmer in Amazing. Fred Galvin submitted a cite from a 1980 reprint of E. E. Smith's 1934 "Skylark of Valeron"; Mike Christie verified this in the 1934 original publication. Fred Galvin submitted a cite from an editorial blurb in the Sept. 1934 Astounding Stories. Fred Galvin submitted a 1946 cite from Bryce Walton's "Princess of Chaos". Fred Galvin submitted a 1956 cite from an editorial blurb in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Fred Galvin submitted a 1930 cite from an editorial blurb in Amazing Stories. Fred Galvin submitted a cite from a 1964 reprint of Philip Francis Nowlan's comic strip "Buck Rogers--in the Year 2429"; we would like to verify it in the original newspaper strip in January 1929 or the magazine version which appeared in Amazing Stories in August 1928 (as "Armageddon -- 2419 A.D.").
Last modified	18 June, 2009

Citations for superscientific adj.

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1940 Brass Tacks in Astounding Sci. Fiction Dec. 116/1	I am definitely not a professor of physics or any other sort of super-scientist, and, consequently, I do not want scientific treatises, whether they be actual fact or sheer bunk. With one exception: the only ‘super-scientific’ author who seems to ‘invent’ plausible machines and situations, is John Russell Fearn.
1964 Great Classic Comic Newspaper Strips, No. 1, Buck Rogers Issue Oct. 5	On the ruins of New York, San Francisco, Detroit, and a dozen others the Mongols reared cities of super scientific magnificence.