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c1875 Pocket Exchange Guide San Francisco 178 S.F. Ten-Cent Parcel Delivery Co.—16 Post.

1975 B. Meggs Matter of Paradise ix. iii. 267 One year at the University of Wisconsin, then moved to S.F. with her boyfriend, drummer in a rock-band.

1929 Sci. Wonder Stories June 92/3 The S.F. Magazine. (Science-Fiction).

1948 G. Conklin Treas. Sci. Fiction p. ix Many SF writers are feeling the urgent need for social controls over our physical powers.

1954 I. Asimov in Mag. Fantasy & Sci. Fiction Oct. 69 (title) The foundation of S.F. success.

1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Mar. 166/2 Both are by O.K.-names in the s.f. world.

1968 Punch 10 Jan. 69/3 Let's take a step beyond in the company of Ray Bradbury..and other (mainly sf) bloodcurdlists.

1969 Daily Tel. 16 Oct. 22/7 Two regular themes in S.F. are the world dominated by a, usually evil, visionary and the world run by a Great Computer.

1973 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Starry Bird viii. 108 Johnson..was looking as everybody looks when they first step into an electronic workshop. That is blasé. This is the fault of the S.F. kiddie shows on the telly.

1975 B. Felton & M. Fowler Best, Worst & most Unusual 44 Arguably, it is the peak of sf film in its long history.

1980 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Nov. 1263/1 The reason for preferring the old established and unpretentious ‘sf’ need not baffle us. The use of ‘sci-fi’ was clearly intended to imply a jaunty insider's knowledge coupled with a modern..demonstration of slick neologism.

1922 Lady Leslie Let. 17 Mar. in M. Gilbert Winston S. Churchill (1977) IV. Compan. iii. 1809 The Union Jacks are being silently stored away—the SF flag floats on the orange Hall.

1973 Irish Times 2 Mar. 8/3 Sherlock J. (S.F.)... 2,488.