Researchers Mike Christie and Sue Surova are searching for citations of SF terms for the OED. You can contribute, too: if you have old SF stuff, be on the lookout for the word \’humanoid\’ before 1940, or \’parallel universe\’ before 1960, or \’UFO\’ before 1953, or…
I\’m particularly curious to know if anyone other than Alfred Bester has ever used the term \’jaunt\’ to describe self-teleportation. It doesn\’t have to be fiction — just about any written source would do. Anyone have a citation?
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