Full record for posthuman adj.

Definition	of or relating to posthumans
OED requirements	antedating 1952
Earliest cite	P. S. Miller
Comment	Rick Hauptmann submitted a 2002 cite from Charles Stross' "Tourist". Malcolm Farmer submitted a 1996 cite from Bruce Sterling's "Holy Fire". Malcolm Farmer submitted a 1994 cite from an interview with Charles Platt in SF Eye. Malcolm Farmer suggested and Mike Christie located a cite from a 1997 reprint of Ken MacLeod's 1997 "The Stone Canal". Michael Dolbear submitted a 2002 cite from Lois McMaster Bujold's "Diplomatic Immunity". Jeff Prucher submitted a 1989 cite from a book review column by Norman Spinrad in Asimov's. Douglas Winston submitted a 1985 cite from Bruce Sterling's "Schismatrix". Ralf Brown submitted a cite from a 1979 reprint of Robert Silverberg's "Son of Man"; we would like to check the 1971 first edition. Eric Casteleijn submitted a cite from a 2000 reprint of R.A. Lafferty's "Not to Mention Camels". Fred Galvin submitted a 1952 cite from a book review by P. Schuyler Miller of A.E. van Vogt's "Slan".
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Citations for posthuman adj.

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1936 Astounding Stories June 145/2	I knew there were two more cellar levels in this titan edifice, and trembled with fresh panic as I recalled the metal-clamped trapdoor on the lowest one. There could be no guards now—for what had lurked beneath had long since done its hideous work and sunk into its long decline. By the time of the post-human beetle race it would be quite dead. And yet, as I thought of the native legends, I trembled anew.
1952 P. S. Miller Reference Library in Astounding Sci. Fiction July 159/2	There are the tendrilless slans--numerous, powerful, and vicious—with the same distorted organs and magnified physical and mental powers as the true slans, but without the telepathic powers of the post-human race ‘created’ by Samuel Lann at least fifteen hundred years before.
1976 R. A. Lafferty Not To Mention Camels vi. 75	Even from a purely technical point of view, you have advanced the posthuman personality beyond any others.
1985 B. Sterling Schismatrix 133	People began to speak, for the first time, of the Schismatrix—of a posthuman solar system, diverse yet unified, where tolerance would rule and every faction would have a share.
1994 Interzone Nov. 56/3	The strongest and most satisfying sense of strangeness comes from those scenes set in the cold quietus of space, in which the revolt of the freedead and glimpses of an eternal, posthuman future are limned with concise precision.
2005 C. Stross Accelerando iii. 81	Their owner is a posthuman genius loci of the net, an agalmic entrepreneur turned policy wonk, specializing in the politics of AI emancipation.