Brave New Words, by Prucher, Jeff, ed.

As the latest book in the SF reference sections, a category that seems to have grown by leaps and bounds in the last few years, Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, edited by Jeff Prucher, fills some pretty empty gaps. Rather than try to find and catalog every SF term out there in the world, Prucher and his compatriots instead have taken a passable shot at defining and giving the etymology of terms that show up repeatedly in the literature and in critical pieces. Not on[…]

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