Full record for chrononaut n.

Definition	a time-traveller
OED requirements	antedating 1963
Earliest cite	Gardner Fox, 'The Highwayman and the Mighty Mite.'
Comment	Ted Anderson submitted a cite from a 1997 reprint of Philip Dick's "A Little Something for Us Tempunauts". Mike Christie verified the cite in a 1975 reprint, and Ben Ostrowsky subsequently verified the cite in the 1974 first edition. Katrina Campbell submitted a cite for the form "chronalnaut" from a 1985 reprint of Richard Meredith's 1976 "Run, Come See Jerusalem!" Mike Christie submitted a 2003 cite from the introduction to John Varley's "A Christmas Story" in F&SF. Ralf Brown located and Richard Horton submitted a 1985 cite from George Alec Effinger's "The Nick of Time". Ralf Brown located and Lawrence Watt-Evans submitted a 1982 cite from Michael Bishop's "No Enemy But Time". Douglas Winston submitted a 2001 cite from Allen Steele's "Chronospace". Gary Westfahl submitted a 1963 cite from a story by Gardner Fox, "The Highwayman and the Mighty Mite", in the comic book "The Atom", No. 6. Gary suggested that a story in The Atom No. 3 (1962) might contain an even earlier cite: we would like hear from anyone with a copy of this issue.
Last modified	6 July, 2008

Citations for chrononaut n.

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1963 G. Fox Highwayman & Mighty Mite in Atom Apr.–May 20	I've been training since my last trip in the Time Pool! I can stand up better to the battering and buffeting I'm getting. I'm becoming a regular ‘chrononaut’.
1974 P. K. Dick Little Something for Us Tempunauts in E. L. Ferman & B. N. Malzberg Final Stage 297	The Soviet chrononaut N. Gauki lifted both hands impassionedly and spoke to the Americans across the table from him in a voice of extreme urgency. ‘It is the opinion of myself and my colleague R. Plenya, who for his pioneering achievements in time travel has been certified a Hero of the Soviet People, and rightly so, that based on our own experience and on theoretical material developed both in your own academic circles and in the Soviet Academy of Sciences of the USSR, we believe that tempunaut A. Doug's fears may be justified. And his deliberate destruction of himself and his team mates at re-entry, by hauling a huge mass of auto parts back with him from ETA, in violation of his orders, should be regarded as the act of a desperate man with no other means of escape.’
2002 Cult Times Apr. 68/3	One of the earlier chrononauts turns up at the Mentnor's [sic] house during a party and causes two deaths before destroying the Sphere.