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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. http://www.mcgath.com/bravenewwords.h...  gmcgath | Oct 7, 2007 |  A dictionary of words used in science fiction with their etyomology, definition, and examples of their uses in science fiction from earliest use to present. It includes words that were coined by science fiction writers (such as unperson, precog, generation ship, and chrononaut) and words that were appropriated by scifi authors (such as alien and sharecropping). 809.38762 B826 mccormicklibrary | Jul 31, 2007 | Jvstin | May 12, 2007 | 
 This book functions best as a fun historical companion to mid-twentieth century writing (with a few nods to other media) and fandom. Here you can learn all about 1940s fanzines and weird old concepts that have morphed (a word first used in 1982 by the way) into new ones. And that's the joy in this book: Discovering discarded concepts like "wireheads" (people who stimulate the pleasure centers of their brains with wires), "waldoes" (remote-controlled biological avatars), and "spy rays" (a beam of energy that can hear transmissions or thoughts).
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Brave New Words is the winner of a 2008 Hugo Award for excellence in the field of science fiction and fantasy.
The first historical dictionary devoted to science fiction, Brave New Words:The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction shows exactly how science-fictional words and their associated concepts have developed over time, with full citations and bibliographic information. It's a window on a whole genre of literature through the words invented and passed along by the genre's most talented writers. In addition, it shows how many words we consider everyday vocabulary-words like "spacesuit," "blast off," and "robot"-had their roots in imaginative literature, and not in hard science.
Citations are included for each definition, starting with the earliest usage that can be found. These citations are drawn not only from science fiction books and magazines, but also from mainstream publications, fanzines, screenplays, newspapers, comics, film, songs, and the Internet. In addition to illustrating the different ways each word has been used, citations also show when and where words have moved out of the science fiction lexicon and into that of other subcultures or mainstream English.
Brave New Words covers the shared language of science fiction, as well as the vocabulary of science fiction criticism and its fans--those terms that are used by many authors in multiple settings. Words coined in science fiction have become part of the vocabulary of any number of subcultures and endeavors, from comics, to neo-paganism, to aerospace, to computers, to environmentalism, to zine culture. This is the first book to document this vocabulary transfer. Not just a useful reference and an entertaining browse, this book also documents the enduring legacy of science fiction writers and fans.
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