Full record for future war n.
| Definition | a subgenre of science fiction dealing with warfare and how it will be practiced in the future |
| OED requirements | antedating 1931 |
| Earliest cite | Editorial material in Wonder Stories |
| Comment | In addition to antedatings, we would like cites prior to 1969 that use the term to describe a genre or type of story.
Cory Panshin submitted a 1989 cite from Alexei and Cory Panshin's "The World Beyond the Hill". Cory Panshin submitted a cite from a 1992 reprint of I.F. Clarke's "Voices Prophesying War"; Jeff Prucher verified the cite in the 1966 first edition. Michael Swanwick submitted a 1969 cite from editorial material by Sam Moskowitz in the anthology "Great Untold Stories of Fantasy and Horror". Enoch Forrester submitted a 1997 cite from Brooks Landon's "Science Fiction After 1900". Enoch Forrester submitted a 1975 cite from James Gunn's "Alternate Worlds". Jeff Prucher submitted a 2002 cite from an interview with Charles Brown in Locus. Jeff Prucher submitted a 1931 cite from editorial material, probably by Hugo Gernsback, in Wonder Stories. |
| Last modified | 6 July, 2008 |
Citations for future war n.
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| 1989 A. Panshin & C. Panshin World beyond Hill 84 | Lost race stories‥future war stories‥dime novel invention stories‥tales of advanced science-beyond-science‥. As soon as science fiction began to exist, it did so in a multitude of forms. |
| 1997 B. Landon Sci. Fiction after 1900 44 | Other late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century novelists utilized thinly disguised Edison-surrogates in a range of future war books. |
| 2002 Locus Sept. 92/3 | H. Bruce Franklin argues (in War Stars , 1988) that the future war novels of 1880-1917 brought about the climate that led to the military/industrial establishment. SF got people worrying, thinking about future war stuff, and finally trying to anticipate it. |