Full record for alternative universe n.

Definition	= alternate world
OED requirements	antedating 1944
Earliest cite	P. Schuyler Miller, 'As Never Was'
Comment	Sue Surova found a citation in James Wolcott's The Catsitters, 2001. Enoch Forrester submitted a 1993 cite from reviews by Rick Swan in Dragon Magazine. Douglas Winston submitted a 1969 cite from A. Bertram Chandler's "Catch the Star Winds". Jeff Prucher submitted a 1973 cite from Jack Dann's introduction to "Showcase". Douglas Winston submitted a 2001 cite from L. Neil Smith's "The American Zone". Douglas Winston submitted a 2002 cite from Terry Pratchett's "Night Watch". Fred Galvin submitted a 1952 cite from Mack Reynolds' "Alternate Universe". Fred Galvin submitted a cite from a 1957 reprint of P. Schuyler Miller's "As Never Was"; Mike Christie verified it in its original publication in the Jan. 1944 Astounding.
Last modified	6 July, 2008

Citations for alternative universe n.

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1966 A. B. Chandler Edge of Night in Worlds of If Sci. Fiction Oct. 127/1	And that was when this alternative universe, this continuum in which Grimes and his people were invaders, had run off the historical rails.
1969 A. B. Chandler Catch the Star Winds xvii. 164	‘Not in this continuum,’ he corrected me. ‘But what happened in the alternative Universes has a certain bearing upon our present predicament. Thanks to your otherwise unpardonable outburst, we can remember now—’
2001 L. N. Smith Amer. Zone ii. 24	Apparently unaware of what universe I came from—the first historically alternative universe to be discovered by Confederate scientists—Gable blamed it all on immigrants to the Confederacy.